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dressmaker

[ dres-mey-ker ]

/ ˈdrɛsˌmeɪ kər /

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noun

a person whose occupation is the making or alteration of women's dresses, coats, etc.

adjective

(of women's clothing) having soft lines or elaborate detail.

Compare man-tailored, tailored.

Origin of dressmaker

First recorded in 1795–1805; dress + maker

OTHER WORDS FROM dressmaker

dress·mak·ing, noun

Words nearby dressmaker

dressing table, dressing-down, dressings, dressler, dressler beat, dressmaker, dressoir, dressy, dressy casual, drest, drew

Example sentences from the Web for dressmaker

She grew up in luxury surrounded by staff, including a dressmaker who taught Margit how to make doll clothes.

At U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Anniversary, One Survivor’s Quest Continues |Sandra McElwaine |April 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
An interest in fashion ran in the family—her mother was a dressmaker and her father once worked as a shoe salesman.

Wheelchair-bound Blogger Warms Fashion Week Hearts |Corbin Chamberlin |February 7, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Words that form the credo of any artist who has hit her stride, be she painter, writer, or dressmaker.

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Her book, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana , will be published by HarperCollins in March 2011.

Television's Threat to Afghan Women |Gayle Tzemach Lemmon |December 28, 2010 |DAILY BEAST

The Dressmaker of Khair Khana will be published by HarperCollins in March.

Bibi Aisha's Tormentor Captured |Gayle Tzemach Lemmon |December 6, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
The dressmaker, with her hands still clasped, looked affrightedly from the one to the other of her two companions.

Our Mutual Friend |Charles Dickens
Lydia was going to her own home to work with a dressmaker sister in hopes of coming back to us at the end of the two years.

The Carved Lions |Mrs. Molesworth
They say her mother was a dressmaker, but of course one never knows how true these things may be.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 |Various
She shifted from costume to costume like a dressmaker's model.

What Will People Say? |Rupert Hughes
Scissors is mother's fad—sort of born in her, I guess, for my mother's mother was a kind of dressmaker.

Her Own Way |Clyde Fitch

British Dictionary definitions for dressmaker

dressmaker

/ (ˈdrɛsˌmeɪkə) /

noun

a person whose occupation is making clothes, esp for women

Derived forms of dressmaker

dressmaking, noun