Definition of "needlewoman" []

• A woman who does needlework, especially a seamstress. (noun)

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• ""Kista was the best needlewoman among us," I told him angrily."
• "I was not a natural needlewoman but I did try hard."
• "Alas, she will never make a needlewoman—and her work suffers because of her appalling untidiness."