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Meaning of shapester | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A seamstress; dressmaker; tailor
    archaic, historical
  2. One who changes shape; shapeshifter

Examples

“In Donegal the fabrics are made up in the cottages, where also the garments are shaped with such skill and fancy as may by chance pertain to the untaught shapester.”
“It was the era of homespun industries; the days of websters, shapesters, litsters, brewsters, baxters and spinsters, the weaving, cutting, dyeing, brewing, baking and spinning falling naturally into woman's hands and necessitating terms showing that there were feminine duties.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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