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seamstresses

seamstresses is the plural of seamstress.

Meaning of seamstress

Noun

seamstress (plural seamstresses)

  1. A woman who sews clothes professionally.
    • […] the Seamſtreſs brought in her ſilver thimble, the Chamber-maid her Bodkin, the Cook his ſilver ſpoon, the Vintner his Bowl into the common Treaſury of War and they who contributed to ſo pious a work, were invited more then others in ſome Churches to come to the Holy Communion in the very time...1656, James Howell, Some Sober Inspections Made Into the Carriage and Consults of the Late Long-Parliament, whereby Occaſion is taken to ſpeak of Parliaments in former Times, and of Magna Charta...

Questions about seamstresses

What is seamstresses the plural of?
Seamstresses is the plural of seamstress.

Words near seamstresses in the dictionary

  1. seamsets
  2. seamster
  3. seamstering
  4. seamsters
  5. seamstress
  6. seamstresses
  7. seamstressing
  8. seamstressy
  9. Seamus
  10. seamy
  11. seamyrtle

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