Meaning of Sempstress | Babel Free

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A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.

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“Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make⟳ me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get⟳; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.”

“I am sure he might pick⟳ and choose⟳ amongst the best dowried dowagers in England; and, instead of making any thing of himself, he has actually been all the way to Granard Park⟳ to look⟳ at his wife's picture, and make⟳ his bow to all the people who knew him, as "Manuello, the emigrant Italian," hunting up his sempstress and washerwoman, to make⟳ their old age comfortable, and talking religion with paralytic vicars and learned curates.”

“This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own⟳ resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent⟳ of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.”

“They were composed of a heterogeneous collection of men and women of the lower layers of society, workmen, sempstresses, night watchmen, farm-hands, mechanics and railway-workers – a laic image in sharp contrast to the bourgeois image produced in the cathedral.”

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