Crossword-Solution: SEAMSTRESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Seamstress | n. | A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “SEAMSTRESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Atelier employee | 1 answer |
| Dorcas, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Lady following threads | 1 answer |
| One who stitches garments professionally | 1 answer |
| Singer's employer? | 1 answer |
| sempstress | 1 answer |
| Couturière | 2 answers |
| *Betsy Ross, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Dorcas was one. | 2 answers |
| dressmaker | 6 answers |
| Machinist | 7 answers |
| Garment worker | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SEAMSTRESS (5)
With her near-sightedness, and those tremulous fingers of hers, at once inflexible and delicate, she could not be a seamstress; although her sampler, of fifty years gone by, exhibited some of the most recondite specimens of ornamental needlework.
From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her.
Before he shut his door he caught a glimpse of Irene trailing up and down before the long mirror in HER new dress, followed by the seamstress on her knees; the woman had her mouth full of pins, and from time to time she made Irene stop till she could put one of the pins into her train; Penelope sat in a corner criticising and counselling.
Hawes, who, since her eldest daughter had deserted her, barely had the strength to cook her own meals while Ally picked up her living as a seamstress.
Mother says she doubts if she can ever teach her to sew and become a housewife." "She isn't cut out for a seamstress or a housewife, Paul.
Quotes with SEAMSTRESS (3)
I carefully lifted out of the pose and spoke up: "Uh, Fran? When I'm doing the pose (camel), I have this feeling in my chest, kind of a scary, tight feeling." Fran was adjusting someone across the room. She had a way of looking like a thoughtful seamstress when she made adjustments: an inch let out here, a seam straightened there, and everything would be just right. She might as well have had pins tucked between her lips and a tape measure around her neck. Without missing a b…
most Americans think of Rosa Parks as a demur, pleasant-enough seamstress who backed into history by being too tired to get out of her seat on a bus one day, in reality she had been trained in nonviolence spirit and tactics at a famous institution, Highlander Folk School. It seems to be a difficult concept for most of us that peace is a skill that can be learned. We know war can be learned, but we seem to think that one becomes a peacemaker by a mere change of heart. (23)
I always had trouble with the feet of Jón the First, or Pre-Jón, as I called him later. He would frequently put them in front of me in the evening and tell me to take off his socks and rub his toes, soles, heels and calves. It was quite impossible for me to love these Icelandic men's feet that were shaped like birch stumps, hard and chunky, and screaming white as the wood when the bark is stripped from it. Yes, and as cold and damp, too. The toes had horny nails that resemble…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).