核心畫面
Picture a woman at a window with cloth across her knees, a needle moving along a seam, a box of buttons beside her. Everything the word does starts there: the hands that join cloth together. From that one picture you can walk in two directions — the woman who lives by those hands, and the woman whose hands are simply very good.
可以想成一個女人坐在窗邊,膝上鋪著布,針沿著接縫一路走下去,旁邊放著一盒鈕扣。這個字做的事都從這裡開始:一雙把布接起…更多收起
可以想成一個女人坐在窗邊,膝上鋪著布,針沿著接縫一路走下去,旁邊放著一盒鈕扣。這個字做的事都從這裡開始:一雙把布接起來的手。從這個畫面往兩邊走,一邊是靠這雙手過日子的人,一邊是這雙手特別靈巧的人。From the word’s history
Recorded as seamster + -ess: a person who works on seams, with the ending that marks a woman.
來源記為 seamster(做縫紉的人)加上 -ess。可以想成:處理接縫的人,再加上一個表示女性的尾巴。
Wiktionary/kaikki extract for seamstress: From seamster + -ess (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1358336549:20318)