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Examples
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Rose has been working with Madame Leonine, the famous French dress-maker who has recently moved to London.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Rose has been working with Madame Leonine, the famous French dress-maker who has recently moved to London.
Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011
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Since in addition to being an aspiring dress-maker, I'm a quilter, too, a full, contiguous yard left-over is on the order of a unicorn sighting.
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Let us hope that she has changed her dress-maker since they were fashioned, and that the public sentiment of the country did not cut out the clothes she hides her lovely figure in, just now.
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Stephen begins to dress in masculine clothes made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker.
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Stephen begins to dress in masculine clothes made by a tailor rather than a dress-maker.
These unnatural cravings of your unbalanced mind and undisciplined body « Jahsonic 2007
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‘Never was taught a stitch, young man!’ returned the dress-maker, tossing her head.
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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But the shop was being brightened up for the occupation of a milliner and dress-maker.
Armadale 2003
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The dress-maker has done my small matters pretty well, but I wish you could have looked them over, and given
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If you stay quietly here until next spring, instead of racing about all over the country, you will have no expenses at all, and surely in four or five months you can settle the rest of your bills if I pay the dress-maker now.
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton 1987
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