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Meanings of plain sewing in English

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Usage of plain sewing in English
1
Her mother is an invalid and her sister takes in plain sewing.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
2
They are also making creditable progress in general cooking, plain sewing and dressmaking.
Home Missions in Action
3
They also sent some lovely Russian embroidery, but no plain sewing.
The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 23...
4
Already Mary could do quite nice embroidery and exquisite plain sewing.
Carl and the Cotton Gin
5
She went into her bedroom and came back with a bit of plain sewing.
The Lodger
6
That will be plain sewing, and you can manage it well enough by yourself.
Mona; Or, The Secret of a Royal Mirror
7
And she don't even know how to do plain sewing.
The Jamesons
8
Margaret was employed on tapestry-work; Doucebelle in plain sewing; and Beatrice with her delicate embroidery.
Earl Hubert's Daughter / The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of ...
9
She drifted around, doing plain sewing and keeping a home somewhere always for the boy.
The Circular Staircase
10
I thought you only did plain sewing such as you have done for our family.
Bessie Bradford's Prize
11
You know I never did like plain sewing.
Christmas with Grandma Elsie
12
Girls are not usually employed as hand sewers unless they know how to do plain sewing.
Wage Earning and Education
13
One calls it a Fight, but it was really almost as unlike a fight as plain sewing.
Tono-Bungay
14
Then, at last, the brave little woman took in plain sewing, greatly to Digby's anguish and mortification.
Her Weight in Gold
15
The woman that does the plain sewing?
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator
16
Could not I get some plain sewing?
Beulah
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Plain sewing through the time
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