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Definition of Needlewoman
1. Noun. Someone who makes or mends dresses.
Generic synonyms: Garment Worker, Garment-worker, Garmentmaker
Specialized synonyms: Betsy Griscom Ross, Betsy Ross, Ross
Definition of Needlewoman
1. n. A woman who does needlework; a seamstress.
Definition of Needlewoman
1. Noun. A woman who works with a needle; a female embroiderer, sewer, etc. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Needlewoman
1. [n -WOMEN]
Medical Definition of Needlewoman
1. A woman who does needlework; a seamstress. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Needlewoman
Literary usage of Needlewoman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1850)
"ELLEN LINN, THE needlewoman. IN a email and meanly furnished garret in one of the
... Ellen Linn, the needlewoman, had won the heart of honest Tom Cripps, ..."
2. Palmer's Index to "The Times" NewspaperTimes (London, England) (1873)
"... needlewoman, 10 а 7 rf ; 10 /< Reed (EJ) on HMS Devastation, 12 e 5 rf 4j7/
Redgrave (GM) on the Alexandra Palace, 14 on the Reception of the Shah in ..."
3. Health, Husbandry, and Handicraft by Harriet Martineau (1861)
"... a clearance made of the murderous competition which has reduced the1 /i/ti/xii/iie
and the m-irn/f of our poor needlewoman to the lowest condition. ..."
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