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seamstress

[seem-stris, sem-] / ˈsim strɪs, ˈsɛm- /
NOUN
sewer
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Osypenko, the seamstress, said she would not get home because of the traffic jams.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Eleonora worked in their home as a maid and seamstress, according to records from 1772.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

She traces her relationship with making clothes back to being the eldest child of a seamstress.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Welsh described Hogg as a "punk-rock Paisley seamstress".

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2026

She must have been the shop owner or at least the head seamstress.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

Sorcinelli, aided by 11 seamstresses, displayed the green silk forming the basis of Leo's vestment for Rimini, rolling out the sumptuous fabric onto a long table.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

Time and again, the 11th-Century seamstresses who created it - who are believed to have been in England, probably Canterbury - were so skilled that the story they are telling looks like it's in 3D.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

There, among the seamstresses in training, Duncan met other welfare mothers, equally desperate, and recognized the stinginess, indifference and bureaucratic aggravations she’d been suffering in isolation were part of a larger system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, he spent his teenage years in the U.S., growing up in a community of seamstresses and store owners who always found reasons to do more rather than less.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

By fall dozens of seamstresses were working full-time transforming thousands of these old army clothes into capes, slacks and stylish coats.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston


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