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Topic: SEWING AND KNITTING

Date: 1500-1600
Origin: seamster 'person who sews', from Old English seamestre, from seam

seamstress

 noun
     
seam‧stress [countable]
1 old-fashionedDLHBO a woman whose job is sewing and making clothes
2 a woman who is good at sewing
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