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tailor / dressmaker
HSK 6
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  *缝* | 缝* | *缝
to sew / to stitch
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  *缝* | 缝* | *缝
seam / crack / narrow slit / CL:
seam / join / juncture
crack / crevice / CL:
small crack / chink
to sew / tailoring
to darn (clothing) / to sew and mend
to sew together / suture (in surgery) / to sew up (a wound)
crack / crevice
to make an item of clothing / to tailor
to sew / to make (clothes, bedding)
(idiom) to fit together snugly; to dovetail perfectly
lit. seamless heavenly clothes (idiom) / fig. flawless
to squint
to quilt
gap between teeth
to cover up mistakes or crimes / to stitch up / to fix
lit. to see a gap and stick in a needle (idiom); fig. to make use of every second and every inch
vertical space in a newspaper between two attached pages / vertical line on the back of clothing
sewing needle
aperture
crack / chink / narrow slit / crevice
lit. to squeeze into every crack (idiom) / fig. to make the most of every opportunity
to sew and mend clothes for a pittance
a stitch / surgical stitches
needle
to patch together / to mend
sewing thread / suture
overlaid seam
seam
seamless connection
part (in one's hair)
to point a brick wall / to grout a tiled surface
(of doors, windows etc) to fit snugly when closed; to close nicely
to sew by hand / hand-sewn
welt seam (doubled over and sewed again from topside)
seamless
gap between teeth
narrow gap / slit
suture zone (geology)
sewing machine / CL:
to sew / to stitch
needlework / sewing and mending
tailor
needleworker
lit. flies do not attack an intact egg (idiom) / fig. no smoke without a fire
hem
tailor
tailor's shop
(bird species of China) mountain tailorbird (Phyllergates cuculatus)
(bird species of China) common tailorbird (Orthotomus sutorius)
(bird species of China) dark-necked tailorbird (Orthotomus atrogularis)


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