Sentence example with the word 'sempstress'

sempstress

Definition n. someone who makes or mends dresses

Last update: October 16, 2015


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Eleanor was almost prone upon the table, cutting the gores with large scissors which made a thoroughly sempstress-like squeak.   [Please select]

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"You see, she's rather wild--a little unconventional--and I've never made love even to a sempstress."   [Please select]

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The little apartment was neat and clean, and decently furnished--ornamented, too, by such relics of her youthful arts of sempstress-ship as Mrs.   [Please select]

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She went to the sempstress To buy him some linen, And when she came back The dog was a-spinning.   [Please select]

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Most women of the kind we're talking about wear ready-made clothes--not because they're lazy, but because the tailor-made suits which life in a city demands can't be made by any amateur sempstress.   [Please select]

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Whatever this stranger might be she felt that he was as far from being a man of the world as she was from being a Cockney sempstress or a veiled favourite in a harem.   [Please select]

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