shepster
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English shepster, shapster, shuppester, equivalent to shape + -ster.
Noun
editshepster (plural shepsters)
- (obsolete) A seamstress.
- 14th century, William Caxton, Dialogues
- Mabyll the shepster Cheuissheth her right well
- 14th century, William Caxton, Dialogues
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editReferences
edit“shepster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.