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

He dedicated it to his seamstress grandmother, who didn’t get to see him make it to the big northern fashion city.

From Seattle Times

“Although your seamstress may be able to add cups to your dress, they don’t usually offer as much lift or support as true underpinnings can.”

From New York Times

But while they dream up the costumes, it is the fabricators — the tailors and seamstresses and embroiderers and weavers and beaders and pleaters and painters and milliners and glovers and cobblers — who actually build them.

From New York Times