as in needlewoman
a woman who sews clothes, curtains, etc., as a job
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Recent Examples of seamstress
Developers encroached with high-rise condos on all sides as the neighborhood transitioned from a commercial train depot with day laborers, mechanics, and seamstresses to trendy and touristy.
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Carlos Frías, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
Zeta-Jones' mom, Patricia, was a seamstress, while her dad, David, worked in a candy factory, The Sunday Times reported.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Finally, in a gallery devoted to the workrooms that occupied the upper floors at 7 Rue de la Paix, there are nods to the house models and seamstresses on whose ceaseless toil all this extravagance rested.
—Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Titular strawberry picker Tita stands against the automation, enlisting a cleaning lady, construction worker and seamstress to fight back against the humanoids.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 July 2025
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Carlos Frías, Bon Appetit Magazine, 19 Aug. 2025
Zeta-Jones' mom, Patricia, was a seamstress, while her dad, David, worked in a candy factory, The Sunday Times reported.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Finally, in a gallery devoted to the workrooms that occupied the upper floors at 7 Rue de la Paix, there are nods to the house models and seamstresses on whose ceaseless toil all this extravagance rested.
—Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 25 July 2025
Titular strawberry picker Tita stands against the automation, enlisting a cleaning lady, construction worker and seamstress to fight back against the humanoids.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seamstress
Noun
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One hundred and fifty years later, young Isobel, a gifted needlewoman, dreams of her own escape from the limited options open to women; her greatest desire is to own a dressmaking shop.—
Heller McAlpin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Oct. 2022
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Set in the 1930s, Chevalier’s new novel follows a woman whose fiancé died in World War I and who finds a sense of community among the guild of needlewomen embroidering kneelers for the pews at one of Britain’s great cathedrals.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2019
Noun
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The sewers underneath Burnet Woods, and throughout Cincinnati, take in both sewage and stormwater.—
Gillian Stawiszynski,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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The big question is whether Britain can pull itself out of this moral sewer.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Seamstress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seamstress. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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