Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A woman who sews; a seamstress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A seamstress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic or dialectal A
seamstress .
Etymologies
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From Middle English sewstare, sowstare, sewestre, sowestre, equivalent to sew + -ster. Compare seamster, spinster.
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Completely unrelated: I found an awesome new old word for "someone who sews": sewster.
February 2010 2010
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‘sewster’; ‘reader’ ‘readster’; ‘seamer’ ‘seamster’; ‘fruiterer’
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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