Definition of "seamstress"

They are seamstresses, who have plied the daily and nightly needle in the service of master tailors and close-fisted contractors, until now it is almost time for each to hem the borders of her own shroud.

1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Procession of Life”, in Mosses from an Old Manse

“If you have finished blathering about men, perhaps you won’t mind skipping over the new seamstress you’ve no doubt found?"

1992, Robert Jordan, “Chapter 52: Need”, in The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time; 4), London: Orbit Books, published 2021, page 862