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/sˈæmplər/ Listen

noun

Sampler n.

One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.

A pattern; a specimen; especially, a collection of needlework patterns, as letters, borders, etc., to be used as samples, or to display the skill of the worker. "Susie dear, bring your sampler and Mrs. Schumann will show you how to make that W you bothered over."

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Etymology of 'Sampler'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sampler" Quotes from Famous Books

... the upper sashes of the murky windows. The lower sash of one window had been raised, and in the yard without, nearly an acre in extent, lay a few bales of cotton, with jagged holes in their ends, just as the sampler had left them. Elder Brown had time to notice all these familiar points, for the figure at the desk kept serenely at its task, and ...

— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various

... sugar. Loeb had from time to time told me that he was sure that there was fraud in connection with the importations by the Sugar Trust through the New York Custom-House. Finally, some time toward the end of 1904, he informed me that Richard Parr, a sampler at the New York Appraisers' Stores (whose duties took him almost continually on the docks in connection with the sampling of merchandise), had called on him, and had stated that in his belief the ...

— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt