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needlewoman

[ UK /nˈiːdə‍lwˌʊmən/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who makes or mends dresses

How To Use needlewoman In A Sentence

  • The footman accuses the cook, she accuses the needlewoman, and the latter accuses the other two.
  • Socialist affiliations are recorded in the memoirs of the stone-mason Nadaud, the draughtsman Perdiguier and Suzanne Voilquin, who was a needlewoman.
  • A large part of his limited production is a celebration, in her many guises, of the industrious bourgeois mother: as mentor, minister, governess, purveyor, nurse, needlewoman and handmaid to her children.
  • The schoolgirls were attending the first of two 10-day courses arranged by the firm to introduce the needlewoman of the future to the art of mechanical sewing.
  • Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper). Try Anything Twice
  • Just as she had been a conscientious dancer, she now became an equally conscientious needlewoman.
  • The anonymous donor, a needlewoman herself, hired it out to film studios in the 1940s.
  • The schoolgirls were attending the first of two 10-day courses arranged by the firm to introduce the needlewoman of the future to the art of mechanical sewing.
  • Making the museum's unique collection of 18th and 19th century samplers accessible to the public is a labour of love for Mrs Foreman, who is now a skilled needlewoman.
  • My mother was an excellent needlewoman and, ever since I was little, I had been brought up with it.
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