DRESSMAKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dressmaker mean? 

• DRESSMAKER (noun)
  The noun DRESSMAKER has 1 sense:

1. someone who makes or mends dresses

  Familiarity information: DRESSMAKER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRESSMAKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who makes or mends dresses

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

dressmaker; modiste; needlewoman; seamstress; sempstress

Hypernyms ("dressmaker" is a kind of...):

garment-worker; garment worker; garmentmaker (a person who makes garments)

Instance hyponyms:

Betsy Griscom Ross; Betsy Ross; Ross (American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836))

 Context examples 

A dressmaker, always stabbed in the breast with a needle and thread, boards and lodges in the house; and seems to me, eating, drinking, or sleeping, never to take her thimble off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Soon I asked her "if there were any dressmaker or plain-workwoman in the village?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In spite of Udolpho and the dressmaker, however, the party from Pulteney Street reached the Upper Rooms in very good time.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Perhaps it was with the hope of narrowing it that she yielded to his persuasions to go to night school and business college and to have herself gowned by a wonderful dressmaker who charged outrageous prices.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"I will be a dressmaker; I will be a plain-workwoman; I will be a servant, a nurse-girl, if I can be no better," I answered.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The time of the two parties uniting in the Octagon Room being correctly adjusted, Catherine was then left to the luxury of a raised, restless, and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho, lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner, incapable of soothing Mrs. Allen's fears on the delay of an expected dressmaker, and having only one minute in sixty to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity, in being already engaged for the evening.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Happen ye've been a dressmaker?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)