tire-womann.
A woman who assists at a lady's toilet; a lady's maid (archaic); †also, a woman employed in the making or sale of women's clothing; a dressmaker, costumier (obsolete).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > dressmaking > [noun] > dressmaker
mantle-maker1552
tire-woman1615
mantua-maker1694
manteau-maker1699
manty-maker1771
sack-maker1780
dressmaker1793
society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > lady's maid
chamberlaina1400
waiting-maid1561
chambermaid1569
lady's maid1577
tire-woman1615
abigail1616
fille de chambre1673
suivante1674
comb-brush1702
tiring-woman1732
femme de chambre1741
lady's woman1748
personal maid1748
comb-brusher1751
ayah1782
wardrobe maid1797
soubrette1824
camerist1838
tire-maid1871
1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 126 T'was some tyre-woman he tooke them fro.
c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 1265 Have they forsaken ye Divell & all his fashions? banishd their Taylors & Tyrewomen?
1669 S. Pepys Diary 20 Feb. (1976) IX. 454 To Mrs. Gotiers, the Queen's tire-woman's, for a pair of locks for my wife.
1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 79. ⁋1 Dressed with all the Art and Care that Mrs. Toilet the Tire-Woman could bestow on her.
1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 108 Why should they not..value themselves for this outside fashionableness of the taylor or tire woman, when their parents have so early instructed them to do it?
1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest II. xi. 259 They will make very nice tire-women to some lady of quality.
1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 8 To while [time] away by scolding her tire woman.
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