Usually means: Creating clothing through cutting, sewing.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word dressmaking:

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  1. dressmaking: Merriam-Webster
  2. dressmaking: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dressmaking: Collins English Dictionary
  4. dressmaking: Vocabulary.com
  5. Dressmaking, dressmaking: Wordnik
  6. dressmaking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dressmaking: Wiktionary
  8. Dressmaking, dressmaking: Dictionary.com
  9. Dressmaking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Dressmaking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. dressmaking: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. dressmaking: Rhymezone
  13. dressmaking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. dressmaking: FreeDictionary.org
  15. dressmaking: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. dressmaking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The craft of making custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.

Similar:
dress-goods, couture, garmentmaking, clothing, dresswear, dressing, tailorism, tailoring, suitmaking, corsetmaking, more...

Opposite:
tailoring, undressing, unsewing

Types:
sewing, tailoring, needlework, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, more...

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Similar:
dress-goods, couture, garmentmaking, clothing, dresswear, dressing, tailorism, tailoring, suitmaking, corsetmaking, more...

Opposite:
tailoring, undressing, unsewing

Types:
sewing, tailoring, needlework, embroidery, knitting, crocheting, more...



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