sempstress

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.
    — Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.

词形变化

sempstresses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English sempster
Late Latin -issader.
Old French -essebor.
Middle English -esse
English -ess
English sempstress
From sempster + -ess.
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