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Needlewoman

noun
(pl. needlewomen)
1.
Someone who makes or mends dresses.  Synonyms: dressmaker, modiste, seamstress, sempstress.





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"Needlewoman" Quotes from Famous Books



... mummies, and no official suppresses his professional objections to the coffins. The weaver observes the looms of the olden time: the soldier compares the Indian's blunt instrument with his own keen and deadly bayonet. The poor needlewoman enjoys her laugh at the rude sewing-instruments of barbarous tribes: the stone-mason perhaps compares his tombs with the sarcophagi of ancient masters. No attendant is deputed to dog the heels of five visitors and to watch them with ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold


Words linked to "Needlewoman" :   Ross, garment-worker, garment worker, dressmaker, garmentmaker, sempstress, Betsy Griscom Ross, Betsy Ross


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