(n.) One who sews well, or whose occupation is to sew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Googlers, Story Cycle employees and Apa Sherpa spent about 11 days on the move last March, using the tripod cameras and fisheye lenses to shoot inside monasteries, schools, clinics,” said Raleigh Seamster, programme manager for Google Earth Outreach.
Seamstress
Definition:
(n.) A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.
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) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
(3) A fibrosing pulmonary disease, which could not be further classified, was diagnosed in a 76-year-old woman who for 40 years had worked as a seamstress in the textile industry.
(4) Katrantzou herself dresses uniformly in black – in her serene London studios, where quiet seamstresses in neon and pastels snip busily at tables, hers seems to be the only shadow.
(5) The studied group comprised 63 seamstresses being employed in piece-work system, requiring great concentration of their attention and precision in producing the elements.
(6) His father works in the fields; the women work as seamstresses.
(7) Ergonomic investigations, performed during five years and covering 1350 women employed at clothing and knitting plants as seamstresses carrying out their work at piece-rate, direct line as well as beltsystem, under the conditions of restricted motorial activity, i.e.
(8) Southern seamstresses created it after the first major land battle of the American civil war, when southern soldiers confused the official Confederate flag, or “stars and bars”, for the US “stars and stripes”, and shot at each other.
(9) They were seamstresses and steelworkers, students and teachers, maids and Pullman porters.
(10) Among the survivors on Friday was Rehana Begum, a seamstress who worked at the Ether Tex garment factory on the third floor.
(11) The 45-year-old is one of eight children – seven brothers and a sister – of a British-Pakistani bus driver and seamstress, and grew up in a packed council house on an estate in the area he now represents in parliament.
(12) Riva was born in north-eastern France, the daughter of an Italian-born sign-painter, and worked as a seamstress before turning to acting.
(13) In another unit, new seamstresses who couldn't keep up were undressed and forced to sew naked.
(14) Hawa, a seamstress, and Erat, a farmer, have been married for 10 years and have three children.
(15) A heavy sewing machine is placed just outside her house – she is a seamstress and prefers to do her work outside (besides, her house does not have enough space inside).
(16) Last year Vela, a retired seamstress, became the oldest living Spaniard.
(17) Modest campaign A Negro seamstress, Mrs Rosa Parks, was going home one day.
(18) Mum was a very good seamstress and there came a time when all the other boys in the school had long trousers.
(19) A seamstress rescued on Friday after 16 days in the rubble continues to recover in hospital, doctors say.
(20) On the off-chance of seeing their brand triumph at what has become the world's premier fashion show, designers devote money and the workmanship of their finest seamstresses to producing one-off gowns which may, at the last minute, be left hanging unseen in a hotel room.