(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.
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.