seamster

[ seem-steror, especially British, sem- ]

noun

1. a person whose occupation is sewing; tailor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seamster¹

before 1000; Middle English semster ( e ), Old English sǣmestre, sēamystre, feminine derivative of sēamere tailor; seam, -ster

Example Sentences

A seamster cut out for them two long black robes with hoods attached, like monks' habits.

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My wife is a seamster, my auntie a cook I do janitor work or comon labor.

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One sees in it a natural outcome of his prentice life in London, as a shoemaker, a seamster, or what not.

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My "seamster," Maria, has a little girl who she sent me word should be my little chambermaid, and she wished me to name her.

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Not as clerk or seamster as in former days, but as half owner and proprietor.

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