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sewster en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English sewstare, sowstare, sewestre, sowestre, equivalent to sew + -ster. Compare seamster, spinster.

Meanings

1. (archaic, dialectal) A seamstress; a sewer (someone who sews).
   • At every twisted thrid my rock let fly Unto the sewster 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
   • This Letter mentions that portraits of Cromwell, Lockhart, and Mr. Sewster, were then in the possession of Mr. Gosling, of Wistow, near Ramsey, in Huntingdonshire, whose Grandfather married a Sewster. 1816, The Gentleman's magazine, volume 120, London, England, page 231:
   • […] and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters, servants, and handmaids. 2004, Peter Lake, Moderate Puritans And The Elizabethan Church:
   • Bound with strong cord! A sewster's thread, i'faith, had been enough [...] 2010, Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, MacDonald P. Jackson, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works - Page 316:

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