seamstress
25
3.6
- noun
- /ˈsiːmstrəs/
:
costurera
- Do you want to see me working as a seamstress?
- work as a seamstress
- young seamstress
- old seamstress
And Guo Pay has a whole shop full of embroiderers and seamstresses that work on these pieces.
- And Guo Pay has a whole shop full of embroiderers and seamstresses that work on these pieces.
- His mom used to be a seamstress before she became mated to the High Lord.
- The sad seamstress who stays with us this month is small and thin and bitter.
- She was a dressmaker as a seamstress's daughter.
- And again, maker means musician, coder, writer, seamstress, whatever IT professional, driver or like.
- I still, you know, there's there's no there's no seamstress in the world, you know, that does not use the seam river.
Examples
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But there was no seamstress in the kingdom skilled enough to work with such material.
Fiction book (1998) -
The father works as a blacksmith and the mother is a seamstress
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Mother needed money, and first found work as a seamstress in a department store.
Fiction book (1993) -
We need those four seamstresses to finish this work.
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In 1955, Rosa Parks was a 42-year-old woman working as a seamstress at a big department store.
Fiction book (1999) -
"It's very beautiful," says his partner Tsvetelina Tsvetkova, a seamstress in a textile factory.
Academic text (2007) -
Especially the young seamstresses who work at one of several massive three-level houses surrounding Trafalgar Square.
Academic text (2009) -
A team of designers and seamstresses cut, sew, and shape endless sheets of orange foam rubber.
Fiction book (2002) -
Living in the cabins behind the Old Place were seamstresses, carpenters, blacksmiths, and munitions makers.
Academic text (2003) -
My mother was a superb seamstress, and she used to make all of our clothes.
Synonyms
88
2.3
A person who makes or fixes clothes so they fit
9
7.2
A person who makes and repairs clothes using needle and thread or a sewing machine
9
3.5
A person who makes dresses and other women's clothes to order
1
2.6
A person who makes clothes in a factory or workshop
1
3.4
A person or machine that sews pieces of cloth together
1
3.5
A person who makes clothes in a factory or workshop
1
7.0
A woman who sews and fixes clothes for a living
1
3.4
A person who makes shirts to fit each customer
A woman who makes or repairs clothes for a living
A person who makes or sells fashionable women's clothes such as dresses and hats
A person who sews or fixes clothes for a living
A man who designs and makes clothes for women like dresses
A person who makes clothes by sewing
A person who makes and alters clothes
A person who uses a sewing machine to join cloth in a factory or workshop
A person who sews or embroiders by hand
A person or machine that sews pieces of material together
A person who makes or repairs long outer clothes, often using cloth and fur
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word seamstress comes from seam, meaning a 'line where two pieces of cloth are joined', and the ending -stress, which names a 'woman who does a job', as in songstress. So a seamstress is a woman who sews or mends clothes.