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Throughout the campaign and since entering office in January, the 34-year-old has touted her working-class roots and experience as a tradeswoman, despite being a graduate of Portland’s elite Reed College.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2023

Now she is on her way to becoming a skilled tradeswoman and is planning to set up her own business.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2012

Who was it hurried on the match with this tradeswoman, so that the King found himself wedded, before he knew it?

From From the Memoirs of a Minister of France by Weyman, Stanley John

"He was put up at a house," says Joinville, "and laid, almost dead, upon the lap of a tradeswoman from Paris; and it was believed that he would not last till evening."

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Black, Robert

She was a rich tradeswoman, about thirty years of age: she had beheld her husband and children die of the plague.

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro