English

Noun

sewster ‎(plural sewsters)

1. (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 [...]

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)