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 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.
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!
6 The solitary mistress of this immaculate home is a spinster sempstress in the thirties.
7 Grasping the hands of the poor sempstress , she found them as cold as ice.
8 So saying, the pious lady glanced contemptuously at the sempstress .
9 The sempstress took the scissors from Frances' work-basket, and presented them to the soldier.
10 But the young sempstress did not yet understand of what crime she was accused.
11 Take the sempstress , of whom so much has been said.
12 There sits a dress-maker, a sempstress who has had some experience of the world.
13 A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress .
14 As she pronounced these words, the sempstress raised her eyes anxiously, fearing that Mdlle.
15 Her reputed father was a scullion, her mother a sempstress .
16 He stopped before Loo Loo, and said, "Are you a good sempstress ? "
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