shepster

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English shepster, shapster, shuppester, equivalent to shape +‎ -ster.

Noun[edit]

shepster (plural shepsters)

  1. (obsolete) A seamstress.
    • 14th century, William Caxton, Dialogues
      Mabyll the shepster Cheuissheth her right well

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References[edit]

“shepster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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