sempster

“WASSEL, like a neat sempster and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribands, and rosemary, before her.”

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

“Thence comes the possibility that a Spanish prince should have degraded himself in the eyes of Europe as a sempster and embroiderer of petticoats.”

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843

“Simister, sempster, Webster, etc., but in process of time the distinction was lost, so that we find Blaxter and Whitster for”

The Romance of Names

“WASSEL, _like a neat sempster and songster; her page bearing a brown bowl, drest with ribands, and rosemary before her.”

In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV)

“He supposed that Walton had then given up his business as a linen draper and sempster, and was only an authour [1089]; and added, 'that he was a great panegyrist.”

Life Of Johnson

““A _tyre-woman_ of phantastical ornaments, a _sempster_ for ruffes, cuffes, smocks and waistcoats”.”

English Past and Present

“We hear of him first as settled in London, following the trade of a sempster, or linen-draper, having a shop in the Royal Burse, in”

Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete

“Italian cutwork standeth him not at the least in three or four pounds; yea, a sempster in Holborn told me there are of threescore pound price apiece. ”

A Book About Lawyers

““Wassel, like a neat _sempster_ and _songster_; _her_ page bearing”

English Past and Present