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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Semstressnoun

    A woman whose business is to sew; a woman who lives by her needle.

    Etymology: seamestre , Saxon.

    Two hundred semstresses were employed to make me shirts, and linnen for bed and table, which they were forced to quilt together in several folds. Gulliver’s Travels.

    The tuck’d up semstress walks with hasty strides. Jonathan Swift.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of semstress in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of semstress in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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