Synonymer

Uttal

  • UK:
    • IPA: /ˈsɛm(p)stɹᵻs/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈsɛmp.stɹɪs/
    • IPA: /ˈsɛm.stɹɪs/

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Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. A seamstress, a woman employed to sew.

Exempel

  • This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
  • They were composed of a heterogeneous collection of men and women of the lower layers of society, workmen, sempstresses, night watchmen, farm-hands, mechanics and railway-workers – a laic image in sharp contrast to the bourgeois image produced in the cathedral.

Böjningsformer

Pluralsempstresses

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