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Semster vs Sewster - What's the difference?

semster | sewster |

As nouns the difference between semster and sewster

is that semster is obsolete form of lang=en while sewster is a seamstress.

semster

English

Noun

(en noun)
    • (webster)

    sewster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, or, dialectal) A seamstress.
  • *1816 , The Gentleman's magazine (London, England) - Volume 120 - Page 231:
    • 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 .
  • *2004 , Peter Lake, Moderate Puritans And The Elizabethan Church :
    • . . . and not of men only but of women and the same not only learned but labouring men, sewsters , servants, and handmaids'.
  • *2010 , Gary Taylor, John Lavagnino, MacDonald P. Jackson, Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works - Page 316 :
    • Bound with strong cord! A sewster's thread, i'faith, had been enough [...]
    (Webster 1913)