英文词源
- seamstress (n.)
- 1640s, with -ess + seamster (also sempster), from Old English seamestre "sewer, tailor, person whose work is sewing," from seam. Originally indicating a woman, but after a while the fem. ending -estre no longer was felt as such and a new one added.
中文词源
来自古英语 seamestre,女裁缝，来自 seam,裁缝，-ster,表阴性，词源同 spinster.后该词性别指 示逐渐消失，为避免歧义，又附加后缀-ess,表阴性。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：seamstress 词源，seamstress 含义。
