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单词 seamster
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seamstern.

/ˈsiːmstə/
Forms: α. Old English sǽmestre, séamystre, sémestre, Old English–Middle English séamestre, Middle English semstere, Middle English–1600s semster, Middle English–1600s semester, 1500s seamester, (Scottish semestair, semestare, semistar, 1500s–1600s Scottish semister), 1600s– seamster; β. 1500s shempster, 1600s seampster, 1500s– sempster.
Etymology: Old English séamestre , feminine formation corresponding to séamere tailor: see seamer n. and -ster suffix. N.E.D. (1911) enters this under the double headword seamster, sempster and gives the pronunciations (sī·mstəɹ, se·mpstəɹ) /ˈsiːmstə(r)/, /ˈsɛm(p)stə(r)/.
archaic.
a. One who sews; one whose occupation is sewing, esp. the making and mending of garments; a tailor, seamstress. Originally a designation of a woman, but in Old English already applicable to a man. Now only applied to one of the male sex, seamstress being commonly used for a female sewer.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor
seamsterc995
tailor1297
parnterc1400
parmenterc1450
pricklouse?a1513
Tom Tailor1575
stitcher1589
scissor man1593
cutter1599
snip1600
snipper1611
shred1616
needleman1621
fashioner1631
snip-snappera1632
sartor1656
nipshred1661
stult1675
cabbage1694
linen-armourer1699
stitch1699
snip-cabbage1708
tire-man1709
knight of the needlea1777
stay-tape1785
schneider1796
needle-jerker1801
skip-louse1807
darzi1809
cross-legs1823
tog-maker1901
knight of the shears-
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
α.
c995 in Kemble Cod. Diplom. VI. 131 Ane crencestræn, and ane semestran.
c1000 Ælfric Gram. (Z.) xxx. 190/6 Sartum (of ðam is sartor seamystre, sartrix heo).
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 312 Sartrix, seamestre.
1379 Poll-tax W. Riding in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 6 327 Margareta filia dicte Matilde, Semstere.
1479 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 300 Cecily..semster.
1527 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 314 Item, to Jonet Dowglas, semestair of the Kingis lynnyng claithis, xxv li.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1585 Sadlers, souters, semsteris fyn.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 33v Good semesters be sowing of fine pretie knackes.
1601 F. Godwin Catal. Bishops of Eng. 372 This woman was commended to him for a very cunning seamster.
1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 457 A Gentleman is a Man of himselfe, without the addition of either Taylor, Millener, Seamster or Haberdasher.
1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. x. 159 Tom was a good seamster, as all travellers should be.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. iii. 611 He told me, ‘The Duke of Strelitz was an excellent seamster’; fit to be Tailor to your Majesty in a manner.
1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure 213 He was squatting on the floor of a room..with two or three fellow seamsters.
β. 1560 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes (new ed.) sig. E.vv A yong wench ther, which was a very connyng shempster.1599 N. Breton Wil of Wit (1876) 59/1 If hee bee a good taylor, shee is a good sempster.a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 84 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) Taylers.., Sempsters, Tyre-women.1659 P. Heylyn Certamen Epistolare 331 They might have put up all their gettings into a Sempsters Thimble, and not filled it neither.1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. v. 33 [Corporal Trim] attending my uncle Toby..as valet, groom, barber, cook, sempster, and nurse.1836 N. H. Nicolas Walton's Angler Life 2 (note) Izaak Walton followed the trade of a sempster or haberdasher.
b. attributive.
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1571 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 362 vj clowtes of fyne semster nedles.
1599 1st Pt. Return fr. Parnassus i. i. 372 He..bringes out signiour Barbarisme in a case of nightcapps,..like a blocke in a seamster-shopp.

Derivatives

ˈseamstering n. (also sempstering) rare attributive the occupation of a seamster.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > tailor > trade or occupation of
tailoryc1449
seamstry1598
seamstering1822
tailorship1830
snipocracy1912
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 > position or occupation of
seamstry1598
seamstressy1761
seamstress-ship1816
seamstering1822
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. June 532/2 Expiating their fallen condition upon the three-foot eminence of some sempstering shop-board.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xi. 130 She's been picking up a living at seampstering.
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