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seamstress
seam·stress
[
smstrəss
]
(
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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