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Needlewoman

noun
(pl. needlewomen)
1.
Someone who makes or mends dresses.  Synonyms: dressmaker, modiste, seamstress, sempstress.





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"Needlewoman" Quotes from Famous Books



... every feature of her costume. It was certainly a marvel of ingenuity, and amidst the general chorus of praise, Mademoiselle could not refrain from improving the occasion by remarking that such a good needlewoman should have no difficulty in turning dressmaker for her own and her sisters' benefit. The reply to this insinuation was a threatening grimace, and Esmeralda made haste to draw her father's attention ...
— Pixie O'Shaughnessy • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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... homemaking work is just as great. The teacher must find the way to give these girls what they need. If no other way presents itself, the teacher will do well to ask the help of the mothers of the neighborhood. Perhaps one who is an expert needlewoman will give an hour or two a week in the school or at her own home to carrying out the sewing course which the teacher cannot crowd into her own already overcrowded program. Perhaps another will do the same for the cooking, making her own kitchen for one afternoon ...
— Vocational Guidance for Girls • Marguerite Stockman Dickson
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... she stood. There was but one thing for her to do and that was to hunt again for work. She had been an expert needlewoman in her better days and this knowledge might earn her ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith
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... such a needlewoman, Hetty. It has been nothing but stitch-stitch for these two hours—and the same yesterday, and the day before. See, the kettle's boiling. Lay down your sewing, that's a dear creature; make me a dish of tea; and while you're doing it, let ...
— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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... expert needlewoman in the house is a great boon to the housewife, and when she has three employees who can sew in her home, she ought to insist upon a great deal of sewing and mending being done by each ...
— Wanted, a Young Woman to Do Housework • C. Helene Barker
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... to do with them," she said; "I've tried my best for Mrs. Hughs. I know quite as good a needlewoman, who'll be only too glad to come instead. Any other girl will do as well to copy father's book. If you take my advice, Hilary, you'll give up ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
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Words linked to "Needlewoman" :   Betsy Griscom Ross, garment-worker, garmentmaker, Betsy Ross, garment worker, Ross


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