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Word: sempstress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress, nay, what silkworm it was that worked upon the bedcovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stateliest Ship | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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