seamstress

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: seam=stress

CIDE DICTIONARY

seamstress, n. [From older seamster, properly fem., AS. seámestre. See Seam.].

 A woman whose occupation is sewing; a needlewoman.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

seamstress, n. (also sempstress) a woman who sews, esp. professionally; a needlewoman.

Etymology

OE seamestre fem. f. seamere tailor, formed as SEAM + -STER + -ESS(1)

ROGET THESAURUS

seamstress

Agent

N doer, actor, agent, performer, perpetrator, operator, executor, executrix, practitioner, worker, stager, bee, ant, working bee, termite, white ant, laboring oar, servant of all work, factotum, workman, artisan, craftsman, handicraftsman, mechanic, operative, working man, laboring man, demiurgus, hewers of wood and drawers of water, laborer, navvy, hand, man, day laborer, journeyman, charwoman, hack, mere tool, beast of burden, drudge, fag, lumper, roustabout, maker, artificer, artist, wright, manufacturer, architect, builder, mason, bricklayer, smith, forger, Vulcan, carpenter, ganger, platelayer, blacksmith, locksmith, sailmaker, wheelwright, machinist, mechanician, engineer, sempstress, semstress, seamstress, needlewoman, workwoman, tailor, cordwainer, minister, servant, representative, coworker, party to, participator in, particeps criminis, dramatis personae, personnel, quorum pars magna fui, faber est quisque fortunae suae.