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Definition of Seamstresses
1. seamstress [n] - See also: seamstress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seamstresses
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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