Seamstress
['siːmstrɪs] or ['simstrəs]
Definition
(n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
Checker: Luther
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sempstress, needlewoman.
Checker: Olga
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see a seamstress in a dream, portends you will be deterred from making pleasant visits by unexpected luck.
Typist: Nigel
Examples
- Mother, I think we might do first rate, if you could get a place as cook, and I as chambermaid or seamstress, in some family. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I am a poor little seamstress, who was with you in La Force. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She watched and waited months for a seamstress. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That's the seamstress who was mentioned to me by a small tenant of mine? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The supposed Evremonde descends, and the seamstress is lifted out next after him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Yet I know she got it out from Worth only two years ago, because my seamstress always goes in to make over her Paris dresses before she wears them. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Checker: Sondra