Definition of Sempstress. Meaning of Sempstress. Synonyms of Sempstress

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Definition of Sempstress

Sempstress
Sempstress Semp"stress, n. A seamstress. Two hundred sepstress were employed to make me shirts. --Swift.

Meaning of Sempstress from wikipedia

- especially under the putting-out system. Older variants are seamster and sempstress. A costume designer is a person who designs costumes for a film, stage...
- "Frankness", "The Sabbath", "So many Calls", "The Canal-boat", "Feeling", "The Sempstress", "Old Father Morris". (Digital copy hosted by Archive.org.) Uncle Sam's...
- being Country Cousins (1848), Olivia's Return to her Parents (1839), The Sempstress (1844) and A Well-spring in the Forest (1877). Redgrave held three important...
- Rebranded under the DCC Horror Line. GMG53015A 2 The Sinister Sutures of The Sempstress 6 Michael Curtis 2016 Second printing of the adventure. Rebranded under...
- other newspapers across Europe. It was dramatised by Mark Lemon as The Sempstress, printed on broadsheets and cotton handkerchiefs, and was highly praised...
- "Tall Buildings" "Widow's Pensions" "Rain" "He Has Not Older Grown" "The Sempstress" "The Dead Baby" "Wintered Life" "The Bonnet Shop" "The Crow" "The Waif"...
- the figure of an elderly lady in Victorian garb, thought to be a former sempstress to Queen Victoria, Mary Brown, who had returned to Alverton as housekeeper...
- seamstress. His mother died in 1887, according to Battley "due to working as a sempstress at her treadle sewing machine night after night into the early hours of...
- of Jesus" (1867); and Vol II. "The Life of Marie-Eustelle Harpain, The Sempstress of Saint-Pallais" (1868); and Vol III. "The Life of Stanislas Kostka,...
- edibles and drinkables—in fact, everything which a hard-working man or poor sempstress is supposed to need in order to keep body and soul together. — Edward...