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A tailor is to a seamstress, as an_ is to an actress |
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Answer» Seamstress is the term that is still used: a woman who can sew and make clothes or whose job is sewing and making clothes. (OLD) It derives from seamster, which is gender-neutral but also QUITE rare ( see Ngram ): seamstress (n.): 1640s, with -ess + seamster (also sempster), from Old English seamestre "sewer, tailor, person whose work is sewing," from seam. Originally indicating a woman, but after a while the fem. ending -estre no longer was felt as such and a NEW one added. (Etymonline) |
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