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sewster

noun

Etymology

From Middle English sewstare, sowstare, sewestre, sowestre, equivalent to sew + -ster. Compare seamster, spinster.

  1. inherited from sewstare

Definitions

  1. A seamstress

    A seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).

    • At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster
    • This Letter mentions that portraits of Cromwell, Lockhart, and Mr. Sewster, were then in the possession of Mr. Gosling, of Wistow, near Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, whose Grandfather married a Sewster.
    • […] and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters, servants, and handmaids.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA