Word: sempstress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
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