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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "sempstress" in a sentence

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    sempstress


    1. It appeared that Yegor had a family, three boys and a daughter, a sempstress, whom he wanted to marry to a cashier in a saddler’s shop


    2. ’Twas so cold in the Chamber (despite the Fire just starting) that my Nipples stood up, and my Skin seem’d as pucker’d and bump’d as a pluckt Chicken’s; and indeed, it seem’d that Mother Coxtart was examining me as much for her own lustful Delectation (and for my continu’d Submission) as to truly take my Measure (for could not the Sempstress measure me as well?)


    3. Running away from him at length, she was apprenticed to a Quaker Sempstress of cruel Temper (who us’d her as a sort of human Pin Cushion and curst the Colour of her Skin as the Devil’s own Doing)


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    Synonyms for "sempstress"

    dressmaker modiste needlewoman seamstress sempstress

    "sempstress" definitions

    someone who makes or mends dresses