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sempstresses

sempstresses is the plural of sempstress.

Meaning of sempstress

Noun

sempstress (plural sempstresses)

  1. A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.
    • 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.1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “Of the Inhabitants of Lilliput; […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […]...

Questions about sempstresses

What is sempstresses the plural of?
Sempstresses is the plural of sempstress.

Words near sempstresses in the dictionary

  1. sempre
  2. sempster
  3. sempstering
  4. sempsters
  5. sempstress
  6. sempstresses
  7. sempstressing
  8. sempstressy
  9. sempstry
  10. Semrau
  11. Semraus

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