单词 | seamster |
释义 | seamstern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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.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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c995 |
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