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Sempstress

//ˈsɛmpstɹɪs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.

    "Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn."

  2. 2
    a woman who makes or mends dresses wordnet

Etymology

From sempster + -ess.

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