seamstress
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Grant, who has been a seamstress for 15 years, said she was sworn to secrecy after the first phone call which was difficult as she was "not good at keeping secrets".
From BBC • May 20, 2026
She traces her relationship with making clothes back to being the eldest child of a seamstress.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
As more women took traditional corporate jobs outside the home, schools eliminated home-economics programs, which were a steppingstone to becoming a professional tailor or seamstress.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026
Originally from a poor and mountainous district of Bamiyan, Rahesh worked for five years in construction in Iran, where his wife Marzia was a seamstress.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
An old seamstress took a peacoat of mine, tore the lining out, opened and flattened the sleeves, added a collar, put arm holes in and handed me back a beautiful cape.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
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