英语
词源
源自sempster + -ess。
发音
名词
sempstress（复数 sempstresses）
- 女裁缝
- 近义词： seamstress
- 1918，W. B. Maxwell，章号17，出自 The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
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- 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 950:
- 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.
