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seamstress
seam·stress [ smstrəss ] (plural seam·stress·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
woman who sews: a woman who sews or whose occupation is sewing
[Late 16th century. < archaic seamster "tailor, somebody who sews" <seam]
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