seamstress

[ seem-strisor, especially British, sem- ]

noun

1. a woman whose occupation is sewing.

seamstress

/ ˈsɛmpstrɪs; ˈsɛmstrɪs /

noun

1. a woman who sews and makes clothes, esp professionally

Gender Note

See -ess.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seamstress¹

First recorded in 1605–15; seamst(e)r + -ess

Example Sentences

It is a story that begins in Newport in 1909 when seamstress Mabel Phillips married Max Wulff, a German sailor.

From BBC

Atkins grew up in rural Virginia, the daughter of a coal miner and a seamstress.

From Los Angeles Times

Born Sept. 22, 1928, in Uniontown, Pa., Lawson grew up in Massillon, Ohio, the son of a Jamaican-born seamstress and an itinerant Methodist minister who packed a gun when he traveled in the South.

From Los Angeles Times

His father worked in a car battery factory, while his mother, a trained teacher in Jamaica, became a seamstress for Mary Quant.

From BBC

“I don’t remember what his name is,” seamstress Danis Cegarra, 48, said of González while she waited with her two children for Machado.

From Seattle Times