(n.) A maker of gowns, or similar garments; a mantuamaker.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the coming years, as many of its longstanding dressmakers and seamstresses retire, the family-run business will find it hard to replace them so that the brand can continue making clothes in the UK.
(2) The red carpets are being unrolled, the paparazzi are installing their stepladders, the dressmakers are rushing their schmutters to the airport – the Cannes film festival is finally upon us.
(3) The city’s vibrant indoor market sees spice sellers from Morocco flogging their wares next to dressmakers from India.
(4) On the basis of precise assessment of the noise level and occupational exposure to noise and local vibrations are formed 4 groups: exposed to independent noise effect with intensity 90 and 100 db (spinners and dressmakers); exposed to combined effect of noise (91 and 103 db) and local vibrations, surpassing the maximum admissible norms respectively 2.5 and 3.5 times (miners of coal- and ore production).
(5) Two women carry what appears to be a Panasonic rice cooker Photograph: Aram Pan The video reveals many of the companies that took part, including: Dandong Chengyuan Import and Export (China) Dandong Jinyuan Trading Co (China) Gumunsan Trading Co Ltd (DPRK) Hamhung Jinxiang Trading Co Ltd. (China) Jangsubong JV (DPRK) Korea Computer Center (DPRK) Liaoning Huanghai Automotive Import and Export (China) Liaoning Shangda Industrial Development Co. Parazelsus (DPRK) Pyongsu Pharma (DPRK) Pyongyang Gemsy Dressmaking Machine Co. Ltd. (DPRK) Taedonggang Technology Co (DPRK) Watch the video: North Korea open for business (Aram Pan)
(6) The Queen's dressmaker, Hardy Amies , teeters on the brink of collapse after its Icelandic backer stops funding it In a speech at the UN, Gordon Brown calls for an end to the "age of irresponsibility" .
(7) The case of a 37-year-old woman, dressmaker, with congenital lower limb amelia is presented.
(8) We note your celebration of the strength and resilience of disabled people: Jenny Wren, whose body is twisted and painful and who makes her career as a dolls' dressmaker; Phil Squod, who can't walk straight and is disfigured, and who is hard-working, loyal and kind; Miss Flite, whose madness sees the truth; crazy Barnaby; hairless Maggie; Sloppy, whose head is too small.
(9) The bulk of fashion manufacturing [PDF] has gone offshore in the past 25 years, causing the art of dressmaking to almost disappear in the UK.
(10) Kate Winslet returns to town following last year’s A Little Chaos and the previous year’s Labor Day with The Dressmaker, an Australian romance co-starring Liam Hemsworth.
(11) Sew Over It has its own range of dressmaking patterns and kits for sale in John Lewis.
(12) Normal appearing matured cultures were subjected to a brief episode of impact trauma by dropping the flat surface of 25 to 105 mg dressmaker's pins from a height of 10 cm directly onto the exposed surface of the culture.
(13) The family had been living in the West End in London, her mother an accomplished dressmaker, her father a carpet retailer.
(14) The 19 operatives from 2 dressmaking mills all complained of work-related dermatitis.
(15) Perhaps the key to the mystery – the odd juxtaposition of commonsense and creative catharsis – can be found in Scarborough, where she was born in 1942, to an RAF serviceman, and a self‑employed dressmaker.
Tailor
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments.
(n.) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring.
(n.) The silversides.
(n.) The goldfish.
(v. i.) To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor.
Example Sentences:
(1) When each overburdened adviser has an average caseload of 168 people, it is virtually impossible for individuals to be given any specialised support or treatments tailored to particular needs.
(2) Since no single procedure can correct all the different forms of mandibular prognathism, each case is individually planned and a "custom-tailored" technique is applied.
(3) As more data are obtained on the use of such tailored therapies in critically ill patients, a new generation of parenteral and enteral diets will be developed to reduce inflammation and immune dysfunction.
(4) Modern analytical techniques allow their detailed analysis in terms of the humoral antibody responses and afford the possibility of the future development of control and disease management procedures tailored to each individual host-parasite system.
(5) Insertion of the material after careful tailoring to the individual patient's own mandibular size and configuration requires a generous posterior lower buccal sulcus incision.
(6) This strategy should encompass environmental measures, self-care activities, and health education; it should carefully weigh the prospective costs and benefits of proposed preventive measures; and it should see that such measures are tailored to the needs of the various specific groups within the general population.
(7) (4) Proper vein-to-artery size ratio and "cobra-head" vein tailoring are desirable.
(8) Treatment must be tailor-made to fit the patient, and the physician needs to consider other professional opinions and emphasize follow-up care.
(9) The program is well into the survey phase, where the main emphasis is on tailoring the neutron spectrum.
(10) The wide variety of neurobehavioral effects produced by chemicals found in the environment argues for a rationale of tailoring test selection in many situations, particularly those where the range of expected effects has been fairly well established for the chemical under study.
(11) In the early days of the downturn, the then work and pensions minister, James Purnell, promised to tailor help to the worst-affected groups.
(12) In the current study, 70 endometrial cancer patients with suspected cervical involvement based on a positive endocervical curettage or punch biopsy were treated with initial surgery followed by tailored radiation or chemotherapy.
(13) The aim of this review is to discuss how treatment may be tailored to reduce the risk of sudden death in high-risk patients.
(14) The above applies to well, preterm babies: sick preterm infants are much more variable in their Na and water requirements than well infants of comparable gestation and weight and each needs an individually tailored regimen based on frequent clinical assessment and laboratory measurement.
(15) Here was the leader of the “indispensable nation” dressed in clothes tailored to mirror a post-western world, or rather, a very China-centred environment.
(16) The plastic operations which were Anderson-Hynes method for UP stricture and submucosal tunnel method with tailoring of dilated ureter for UV stricture were performed at the same time.
(17) It will be years before the hard-won knowledge from the human genome project is translated into new, precise treatments tailored for both the disease and the patient.
(18) Specific primers, deduced from the aminoterminal sequence of the purified protein, were tailored to facilitate direct expression of plasmic clones, and the large fraction of positive clones obtained, revealed the presence of isogenic variation.
(19) Younger women with persistent localized breast symptoms should undergo a tailored mammographic examination, but negative findings or findings of a benign lesion should not preclude biopsy of a palpable solid mass.
(20) Held on the nineteenth floor of Broadgate Tower in the city, complete with panoramic views and a stunning sunset, this show delivered a wardrobe of polished separates, slick tailoring and chic dresses.