semstresses

Updated: March 1, 2026

But this requires some time: and then you'l have reason to rejoice; for it is commonly the usual custom of the semstresses to let you go and run after them, and fop you off with lies and stories, till the time be so nigh at hand, that it will admit no longer delay.

A. Marsh - The Ten Pleasures of Marriage : and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple