Definition of seamstress
: a woman whose occupation is sewing
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Recent Examples of seamstress from the Web
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Born on Dec. 2, 1946, the son of a seamstress and an appliance salesman from dirt-poor Reggio di Calabria in Southern Italy, Gianni Versace grew up surrounded by sewing machines and fabrics in his mother's studio.
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Most Americans know almost from birth the story of the creation of the U.S. flag, how Betsy Ross, a seamstress for the Pennsylvania navy, first designed the Stars and Stripes during the American Revolution.
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L'Nique's warehouse is stocked with thousands of linens in a rainbow of designs, fabrics, textures, patterns and colors, with two on-site seamstresses that can stitch linens, table runners, and napkins to fit.
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Khan was born and raised in London, growing up in Tooting, in the south of the city, to bus driver and seamstress parents who had emigrated from Pakistan.
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Nerys Góngora, a seamstress who came from Cuba in 1980.
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According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the flag, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington.
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Khan was born and raised in cramped government housing in London, the son of a Pakistani bus driver and seamstress, immigrants who moved to London in the 1960s.
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Rosario was convicted in April of murdering 83-year-old Elena Ortega, a Cuban immigrant and seamstress who lived in his Orange County neighborhood, near the intersection of South Semoran Boulevard and Turnbull Drive.
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First Known Use of seamstress
1598
SEAMSTRESS Defined for English Language Learners
seamstress
playDefinition of seamstress for English Language Learners
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: a woman who sews clothes, curtains, etc., as a job
SEAMSTRESS Defined for Kids
seamstress
playDefinition of seamstress for Students
: a woman who sews especially for a living
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