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Definition of Sempster
1. n. A seamster.
Definition of Sempster
1. Noun. A seamster, a man employed to sew. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sempster
1. a person who sews [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sempster
Literary usage of Sempster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
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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