workgirl
Example Sentences
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To avoid standing idle, Laptev took some trimmings from a workgirl and let her go; then listened to a customer, a merchant from Vologda, and told a clerk to attend to him.
From The Darling and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
The girl was dressed like a young lady, not like a workgirl.
From Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
Sally had long been able to behave as somebody other than a workgirl, and the servants were so well-behaved that they did not make any attempt to be too much at ease with her.
From Coquette by Frank Swinnerton
She astonished the architect with her ideas, for, as became a Parisian workgirl who understands the elegancies of life by instinct, she had suddenly developed a very pretty taste for every species of luxurious refinement.
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Émile Zola
Nana might indulge in riotous living if she chose, but when she came home to her mother's she ought to dress like a workgirl.
From L'Assommoir by Émile Zola
