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Meanings of sempstress in English

Catalan
costurera
Spanish
modisto
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Someone who makes or mends dresses.

        costurera
        Usage of sempstress in English
        1
        Nevertheless, the train that the spinster-sempstress took was the last train to leave.
        Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
        2
        You own that you cannot do anything for the sempstress and the housemaid.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
        3
        Frances, be comforted, whispered the sempstress, who had drawn near to Dagobert's wife.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
        4
        How is it that you are here, weaving lace like any mechanical sempstress?
        Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the W...
        5
        Seized with terror, the sempstress could not forbear exclaiming: Good gracious, M. Dagobert!
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
        6
        The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstress in the thirties.
        Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
        7
        Grasping the hands of the poor sempstress, she found them as cold as ice.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 09
        8
        So saying, the pious lady glanced contemptuously at the sempstress.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 11
        9
        The sempstress took the scissors from Frances' work-basket, and presented them to the soldier.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
        10
        But the young sempstress did not yet understand of what crime she was accused.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 03
        11
        Take the sempstress, of whom so much has been said.
        Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4
        12
        There sits a dress-maker, a sempstress who has had some experience of the world.
        Pictures of Sweden
        13
        A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress.
        Gobseck
        14
        As she pronounced these words, the sempstress raised her eyes anxiously, fearing that Mdlle.
        The Wandering Jew — Volume 04
        15
        Her reputed father was a scullion, her mother a sempstress.
        Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
        16
        He stopped before Loo Loo, and said, "Are you a good sempstress?"
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ...
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        Spanish
        modisto
        Sempstress through the time
        Sempstress across language varieties
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