ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Shapester

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Shapester is a noun meaning One who changes shape; shapeshifter.

Meaning

One who changes shape; shapeshifter.

More Meanings

  1. (archaic, historical) A seamstress; dressmaker; tailor

Example Sentences

In Donegal the fabrics are made up in the cottages, where also the garments are shaped with such skill and fancy as may by chance pertain to the untaught shapester.
It was the era of homespun industries; the days of websters, shapesters, litsters, brewsters, baxters and spinsters, the weaving, cutting, dyeing, brewing, baking and spinning falling naturally into woman's hands and necessitating terms showing that there were feminine duties.

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include seamstressy, sempster, seamster, semster, seamstress, sempstress.

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