sempstress

• “In Pritchard, the Conservatives have surely found their very own Rosa Parks, not a meek sempstress, admittedly, but the next best thing: in his words, "a council lad from a very poor background".”

  The Guardian: Animals in circuses: If you're going to rebel, find a better cause | Catherine Bennett

• “This person, it developed, was the village sempstress, recruited to repair the deficiencies of my wardrobe by adjusting the fit of a dress, obtained on short notice from some local connection of the innkeeper's.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “She is the most respectable servant I have met with in Italy; and, were you not provided, I would recommend her to you, — she is a good sempstress, and an excellent nurse.”

  New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn

• “We see him raise his sempstress Dorcas, at the house of the tanner Simon at Joppa.”

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “St. Peter raised from the dead Dorcas, a sempstress, who made clothes for the “brethren.””

  A Philosophical Dictionary

• “A pile of shaped pieces of linen told me that she was a sempstress.”

  Gobseck

• “Nan was a sempstress and did not I think have any connection to commercial baking”

  Sedgemoor Easter Cakes, Somerset

• “To this encaged sempstress no one ever speaks unless it be to give a rare order for a mutton chop or pint of stout.”

  The Three Clerks

• “The housemaid probably did not like cleaning grates; nor the butcher killing sheep; nor the sempstress stitching silks.”

  The American Senator

• “These easily-pleased, confectionery-eating students, who fancy they are sowing their wild oats in truly Continental style if they tickle a sempstress under the ribs!”

  Hunger

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