Lexic.us

Definition of Sempster

1. n. A seamster.

Definition of Sempster

1. a person who sews [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sempster

semper sempervive sempervivum sempervivum sempervivums sempiternal sempiternally sempiternities sempiternity semple

sempler semplest Semple vaccine semplice sempre sempster (current term) sempsters sempstress sempstresses semsem

semsems semuncia semuncia semunciae semuncias semustine sem 5 sen sena senaries

Literary usage of Sempster

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1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1853)
"... groom, cook, sempster, surgeon, and engineer, superadded that of an excellent upholsterer too), with the help of a carpenter and a couple of tailors, ..."

2. The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859)
"We hear no more of him until he attained his 30th year, when he is found carrying on the business of a " sempster," or man-milliner, in London. ..."

3. The Compleat Angler: Or Contemplative Man's Recreation; Being a Discourse on by Izaak Walton (1902)
"Either Hawkins and Wood were in error — though the former expressly states he had documentary evidence —or else Walton was at one time a sempster, ..."

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