Tailoresses

Word TAILORESSES
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What do we mean by tailoresses?

A female tailor

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The word "tailoresses" in example sentences

Advertisements for tailoresses 'meetings appeared in the Union, a GTU newspaper and the New Era, a Loco Foco newspaper. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Note 46: The actual threat from tailoresses to the work position of tailors in 1819 is hard to measure, but Howard ❋ Unknown (2006)

Male tailors traditionally performed more specialized sewing and fitting for men's clothes, while female seamstresses (or tailoresses) made children's clothes, dresses, and simple shirts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They decried the "unmanly and ungenerous conduct" of merchant tailors for offering men's work to tailoresses and argued that skilled male workers alone possessed the ability to perform certain types of needlework. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Only 42 women self-identified as tailoresses in the 1825 city directory, but the New York Association of Tailoresses formed in 1831 had upwards of 500 members. ❋ Unknown (2006)

A.A great many of them buy the cloth, and some of their women are as good tailoresses as you would find anywhere. ❋ T. Thomas Fortune (2007)

In her house were not only laundresses, sempstresses, carpenters, tailors and tailoresses, there was even a harness-maker — he was reckoned as a veterinary surgeon, too, — and a doctor for the servants; there was a household doctor for the mistress; there was, lastly, a shoemaker, by name ❋ Unknown (2006)

The, girls seamstresses, mantuamakers, and a considerable proportion tailoresses, in Kingston and throughout Jamaica, as situations offer. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)

Now, the old aristocratic edifice hides its time-worn visage behind an upstart modern building; at one of the back windows I observed some pretty tailoresses, sewing and chatting and laughing, with now and then a careless glance towards the balcony. ❋ William Patterson Atkinson (N/A)

Waight and Louisa Mitchell, the leaders of New York tailoresses in ❋ Alice Henry (1900)

Six years later the tailoresses of New York were again clubbed together for self-protection against the inevitable consequences of reduced and inadequate wages. ❋ Alice Henry (1900)

It is principally in the textile trade that we hear of both strikes and unions, but also among seamstresses and tailoresses, shoemakers and capmakers. ❋ Alice Henry (1900)

Most of the girls are Germans and Poles, and they have all received training as tailoresses in their native countries. ❋ John Van Vorst (1900)

So much sewing has always been done in the homes of the workers that it is a matter of surprise to learn that the very first women's trade union of which we have any knowledge was formed, probably in some very loose organization, among the tailoresses of New York in the year 1825. ❋ Alice Henry (1900)

(Jewish tailoresses) employed by K. were subsequently thrashed by him. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

Wyalusing, and Wyoming, including the wives and children of several non-commissioned officers and soldiers from the district; widows of murdered settlers, washerwomen, and several tailoresses -- in all a very considerable number. ❋ Unknown (1899)

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