SEAMSTRESS in a Sentence

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Mother, I think we might do first rate, if you could get a place as cook, and I as chambermaid or seamstress, in some family.

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 Meanings and Examples of SEAMSTRESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
seamstress
 n.  woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman
Classic Sentence:
1  The citizen made a fresh pause and continued, "I have a wife who is seamstress to the queen, monsieur, and who is not deficient in either virtue or beauty."
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 8 CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE
2  Aramis therefore had written immediately to Marie Michon, the seamstress at Tours who had such fine acquaintances, to obtain from the queen authority for Mme.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 60 IN FRANCE
3  Mother, I think we might do first rate, if you could get a place as cook, and I as chambermaid or seamstress, in some family.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  This narrowness of life reaches its maximum among the women: thirteen hundred and fifty of these are farm laborers, one hundred are servants and washerwomen, leaving sixty-five housewives, eight teachers, and six seamstresses.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
Example Sentence:
1  Take it to your drycleaner or seamstress; have a removable shoulder strap added, to free up your hands.