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[ dres-mey-ker ] / ˈdrɛsˌmeɪ kər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR dressmaker ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc. adjective(of women's clothing) having soft lines or elaborate detail. Compare man-tailored, tailored. Origin of dressmakerFirst recorded in 1795–1805; dress + maker OTHER WORDS FROM dressmakerdressmaking, nounWords nearby dressmakerdressing sack, dressing station, dressing table, Dressler, Dressler beat, dressmaker, dressoir, dress parade, dress rehearsal, dress shield, dress shirt Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for dressmakerShe grew up in luxury surrounded by staff, including a dressmaker who taught Margit how to make doll clothes. At U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Anniversary, One Survivor’s Quest Continues|Sandra McElwaine|April 29, 2013|DAILY BEAST An interest in fashion ran in the family—her mother was a dressmaker and her father once worked as a shoe salesman. Wheelchair-bound Blogger Warms Fashion Week Hearts|Corbin Chamberlin|February 7, 2013|DAILY BEAST Words that form the credo of any artist who has hit her stride, be she painter, writer, or dressmaker. Must-Reads: ‘The Last Nude,’ ‘Arrows of the Night,’ and ‘The Fallback Plan’|Bruce Riedel, Lauren Elkin, Drew Nellins|January 24, 2012|DAILY BEAST Her book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana , will be published by HarperCollins in March 2011. Television's Threat to Afghan Women|Gayle Tzemach Lemmon|December 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana will be published by HarperCollins in March. Bibi Aisha's Tormentor Captured|Gayle Tzemach Lemmon|December 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from the one to the other of her two companions. Our Mutual Friend|Charles Dickens Lydia was going to her own home to work with a dressmaker sister in hopes of coming back to us at the end of the two years. The Carved Lions|Mrs. Molesworth They say her mother was a dressmaker, but of course one never knows how true these things may be. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880|Various She shifted from costume to costume like a dressmaker's model. What Will People Say?|Rupert Hughes Scissors is mother's fad—sort of born in her, I guess, for my mother's mother was a kind of dressmaker.
British Dictionary definitions for dressmaker
nouna person whose occupation is making clothes, esp for women Derived forms of dressmakerdressmaking, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to dressmakertailor, designer, sewer, fitter, modiste |