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Definition of Dressmakers
1. dressmaker [n] - See also: dressmaker
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dressmakers
Literary usage of Dressmakers
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)
"Bookkeepers, cooks, dressmakers, milliners, second girls, shirt makers, ...
Bookkeepers and stenographers, 0; dressmakers, 7; saleswomen, dry goods, 15; ..."
2. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1864)
"He stated that though in 1842 the sufferings of the overworked dressmakers and
milliners were recorded in a Report of a Royal Commission, ..."
3. Wages and Regularity of Employment in the Dress and Waist Industry of New by Nahum Isaac Stone (1915)
"dressmakers. dressmakers are operators of the highest skill, for they are required to
... dressmakers are employed on high- grade dresses and gowns only. ..."
4. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1910)
"dressmakers. To carry on the business of tailors, dressmakers, milliners and
manufacturers and dealers in underwear and hosiery of every kind and ..."
5. Report to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department by Great Britain Poor Law Commissioners (1842)
"In a return of the causes of death to the milliners and dressmakers who died
during the year 1839, in the unions of the metropolis, in which we have no ..."
6. Sojourning, Shopping & Studing in Paris: A Handbook Particularly for Women by Elizabeth Otis Williams (1907)
"dressmakers. — It is a little difficult to write frankly about individual
dressmakers that we know without making what might seem to be invidious ..."
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