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Definition of 'sempstress'English
Noun
(sempstresses)
A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.
*|chapter=17
|title= The Mirror and the Lamp
|passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress , anything.}}
*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 950:
*:They were composed of a heterogeneous collection of men and women of the lower layers of society, workmen, sempstresses , night watchmen, farm-hands, mechanics and railway-workers – a laic image in sharp contrast to the bourgeois image produced in the cathedral.
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