seamstress
Example Sentences
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At 16, she sacrifices her education to work as a seamstress so her brothers can go to school and, she hopes, become prosperous.
From New York Times
Sarkar’s first concern was how she was going to pay her seamstresses — Afghani women refugees living in Seattle.
From Washington Post
His father and mother, a plasterer and seamstress, respectively, were Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe.
From Washington Post
His parents, Jacob, a plasterer, and Rel Goldman Topol, a seamstress, had fled shtetlach in Eastern Europe to settle in Palestine in the early 1930s.
From New York Times
Her mother was a nurse and a “wonderful seamstress” who made hats and jewelry — Hudson later learned that she used to paint, but stopped when she had kids.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
