Someone who makes or mends dresses.
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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 - not home -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 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.
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.
6 I know quite as good a needlewoman , who'll be only too glad to come instead.
7 The footman accuses the cook, she accuses the needlewoman , and the latter accuses the other two.
8 Kate is really a most dainty needlewoman and does all the fine sewing in our family.
9 That was what he was after; to find and carry away the poor needlewoman 's supposed hoardings.
10 And surely she was a very excellent needlewoman .
11 She was a nimble little needlewoman , and they were finished before anyone got tired of them.
12 Spinning wheels-Materialsand work-Littleaccessories-Cutlery-Quaint woodwork - The needlewoman - Old samplers.
13 Surprised at the long silence of Dagobert, the needlewoman followed his movements with timid and uneasy curiosity.
14 Are you speaking of a young girl who bears that nickname, the sister of a deformed needlewoman .
15 She was an expert needlewoman , and had already a pile of fantastic kilts of cloth and velvet.
16 My lieutenant went to get what I wanted, and particularly a needlewoman to make me some shirts.
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