Definition of Seamstresses

1. Noun. (plural of seamstress) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Seamstresses

1. seamstress [n] - See also: seamstress

Lexicographical Neighbors of Seamstresses

seamless
seamlessly
seamlessness
seamlessnesses
seamlike
seamount
seamounts
seamouse
seams
seamset
seamsets
seamster
seamsters
seamstress
seamstress's cramp
seamstresses
seamstressing
seamstressy
seamy
sean
seance
seances
seaned
seaning
seannachie
seannachies
seans
seapiece
seapieces
seaplane

Literary usage of Seamstresses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Bulletin of the Department of Labor by United States Dept. of Labor (1898)
"Cooks, domestics, factory employees, seamstresses, store employees, (a) Nearly all ... Laundresses and domestics, 15; scholars, 19; seamstresses. 9. ..."

2. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1853)
"... to supersede all ordinary plain hand sewing, and that sewing, as an occupation for either men or women, tailors or seamstresses, is gone forever. ..."

3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... a far larger number who were without such enrolment, such as fifty-two thousand shirtmakers and seamstresses and four hundred thousand dressmakers and ..."

4. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1876)
"Temptations of Seamstresses.—Indiscriminate Employment of both Sexes in Shops.—Factory Life.—Business of the Fathers of Prostitutes.—Mothers' Business. ..."

5. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1859)
"Temptations of Seamstresses.—Indiscriminate Employment of both Sexes in Shops.—Factory- Life.—Business of the Fathers of Prostitutes.—Mothers' Business. ..."

6. Proceedings and Debates of the National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention (1859)
"Seamstresses, &c.—What has been said of the journeymen tailors, applies with too much force to the individuals of the other sex, who work in milliner and ..."

7. Proceedings and Debates of the Third National Quarantine and Sanitary by New York (City). Board of Councilmen, Board of Councilmen (1859)
"Seamstresses, <&c.—What has been said of the journeymen tailors, applies with too much force to the individuals of the other sex, who work in milliner and ..."

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