单词 | sewster |
释义 | sewstern. Obsolete exc. Scottish. A seamstress. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > one who seamsterc995 sewster1391 sewer1399 seamstress1615 fine-drawer1702 stitch-man1710 sewist1867 feller1883 1391 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 86/26 Edwyne Moreyn sewster pro filo ab ipsa empto. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman 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]. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 454/2 Sewstare, or sowstare (sowares) sutrix. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 40 Taylourys, sowsterys. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxviii. f. 238 Brotherers, sylkewomen, and all seusters craftis: occupye nedyls. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xxix A yonge wenche..whych was a very connynge sowster. 1567–9 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. (1611) 450 Labouring Women, and Sewsters, and Seruants, and Handmaids. 1590 Maldon (Essex) Liber C 121 Le sewester sive silkewoman. a1637 B. Jonson Sad Shepherd ii. iii. 47 in Wks. (1640) III At every twisted thrid my rock let flie Unto the sew'ster, who did sit me nigh. View more context for this quotation 1657 C. Beck Universal Char. sig. K7v A sewster. 1824 MacTaggart in Trotter East Galloway Sk. (1901) 370/1 When plowman Tam meets sewster Bess His dogg'rel rhymes he'll chime till her. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Sewster, a sempstress. [1882 also Sowster.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1391 |
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