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ˈsewster Obs. exc. Sc.
Forms: 4–5 sewestre, -stare, sou-, sowe-, sywester(e, 4–9 sewster, 5 sew-, sowstare, 5–9 sowster, 6 seu-, sewe-, sewstar.
[f. sew v.1 + -ster. Cf. Fris. dial. (Hinderloopen) syster.]
A sempstress.
1391Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 86/26 Edwyne Moreyn sewster pro filo ab ipsa empto. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 362 Sesse þe sywestere [v.rr. sowester, sewestare, sewestre, soustere; A. v. 158 souters, v.r. soustere; B. v. 315 souteresse, v.r. sowestere]. c1440Promp. Parv. 454/2 Sewstare, or sowstare (sowares) sutrix. c1440Jacob's Well 40 Taylourys, sowsterys. 1519W. Horman Vulg. 238 Brotherers, sylkewomen, and all seusters craftis occupye redyls. 1550Bale Engl. Votaries ii. 29 A yonge wenche..whych was a very connynge sowster. 1567–9Jewel Def. Apol. (1611) 450 Labouring Women, and Sewsters, and Seruants, and Handmaids. 1590Maldon (Essex) Liber C. 121 Le sewester sive silkewoman. a1637B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. iii, At every twisted thrid my rock let flie Unto the sew'ster, who did sit me nigh. 1657C. Beck Universal Char. K 7 b, A sewster. 1824MacTaggart in Trotter East Galloway Sk. (1901) 370/1 When plowman Tam meets sewster Bess His dogg'rel rhymes he'll chime till her. 1825Jamieson, Sewster, a sempstress. [ed. 1882 also Sowster.] |