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Meanings of seamstress in inglês
Synonyms
Examples for "dressmaker"
Examples for "dressmaker"
1
Helen Cresswell stood there radiant; the dressmaker, too, was wreathed in smiles.
2
The materials were oriental; the cut was the dressmaker's-nothome-built, as usual.
3
Mrs. Whitney had rented two rooms in the house to a dressmaker.
4
All this was before the dressmaker, who listened with no particular interest.
5
She went to the dressmaker and touched her tragically on the arm.
1
Nevertheless, the train that the spinster-sempstress took was the last train to leave.
2
You own that you cannot do anything for the sempstress and the housemaid.
3
Frances, be comforted, whispered the sempstress, who had drawn near to Dagobert's wife.
4
How is it that you are here, weaving lace like any mechanical sempstress?
5
Seized with terror, the sempstress could not forbear exclaiming: Good gracious, M. Dagobert!
1
He had now uncovered the slight figure of the little French modiste.
2
The ragdealer's daughter, Justa by name, was a modiste in a shop.
3
This wonderful modiste, whose taste in modes was exquisite, was Mademoiselle Bertin.
4
From her condition, a modiste cannot dispense with being amiable, gracious, engaging.
5
When they came out of the milliner's or modiste's, Fred was waiting.
1
She was a very clever needlewoman, expert in the mysteries of dressmaking.
2
Frances Baudoin heaved a long sigh, and fell almost lifeless into the needlewoman's arms.
3
I'm an excellent needlewoman and a fair cook, but I was never much for books.
4
The needlewoman hung down her head, overcome with confusion.
5
I never knew you were such a needlewoman, Hetty.
Usage of seamstress in inglês
1
I think I shall have the seamstress fashion you a new outfit.
2
The seamstress took up the dress carefully and held it in readiness.
3
She tripped away to the sewing-room in search of the little seamstress.
4
Banker and baker, soldier and seamstress, were equally interested in the currency.
5
The seamstress and the Frenchwoman, still talking, had passed down the hall.
6
A good goblin seamstress can peel a skin without a single tear.
7
I always was a seamstress-madepants for the men on the place.
8
There he met seamstress Rosanna Ward, and they were married in 1912.
9
The seamstress's face was distorted by her efforts to control her voice.
10
In dreams I am equal to the delivery boy and the seamstress.
11
Not to her own room, however, but to that of the seamstress.
12
She was a seamstress and a widow with one little daughter, Nettie.
13
A talented artist, musician, and seamstress, Lucy seemed to excel at everything.
14
The tears, stealing forth, chased each other down the seamstress's thin cheeks.
15
One of Mae's secrets was that she was a very bad seamstress.
16
Did I tell you that Mattie Tubbs was to be my seamstress?
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Seamstress through the time
Seamstress across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common