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Chan said her mother, a seamstress and home health aide, didn’t get beyond a high school education.
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Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 15 June 2024
Her family must have paid a seamstress to trim the skirt.
—Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 13 June 2024
The Rosa Parks Bus is the public transportation vehicle where Parks, a Black seamstress and dedicated activist, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
Lili Taylor’s performance does not summon up the madwoman Mary is sometimes depicted as being, and the series depicts Elizabeth Keckley (Get Out’s Betty Gabriel), Mary’s friend — a renowned seamstress and, later, author — as a kind of tempering influence.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
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Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 15 June 2024
Her family must have paid a seamstress to trim the skirt.
—Jeanne Bonner, CNN, 13 June 2024
The Rosa Parks Bus is the public transportation vehicle where Parks, a Black seamstress and dedicated activist, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on Dec. 1, 1955.
—Brendel Hightower, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2024
Lili Taylor’s performance does not summon up the madwoman Mary is sometimes depicted as being, and the series depicts Elizabeth Keckley (Get Out’s Betty Gabriel), Mary’s friend — a renowned seamstress and, later, author — as a kind of tempering influence.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
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“Seamstress.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seamstress. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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seamstress
noun
seam·stress
ˈsēm(p)-strəs 
: a woman who sews especially for a living
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