Sense

1. a sempstress

Examples

• τὰ δὲ παρὰ τοῖς κωμῳδιοποιοῖς λεγόμενα δεῖπνα ἡδίστην ἀκοὴν παρέχει τοῖς ὠσὶ μᾶλλον ἢ τῇ φάρυγγι, ὥσπερ τὰ παρὰ Ἀντιφάνει μὲν ἐν Ἀκεστρίᾳ: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 66 1:2)
• μνημονεύει δ αὐτῆς Ἀντιφάνης ἐν Ἀρκάδι καὶ ἐν Κηπουρῷ, ἐν Ἀκεστρίᾳ, ἐν Ἁλιευομένῃ, ἐν Νεοττίδι, καὶ Ἄλεξις ἐν Κλεοβουλίνῃ καὶ Καλλικράτης ἐν Μοσχίωνι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 50 1:2)
• τούτων τῶν ἰαμβείων ἔνια ἔστιν εὑρεῖν καὶ ἐν Ἀκεστρίᾳ καὶ ἐν Ἀγροίκῳ ἢ Βουταλίωνι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 67 4:19)

Similar forms

• ἀκεστρίας (4)
• Ἀκεστρίᾳ (3)
• ἄκεστρον (1)
• ἀκέστραν? (1)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.