workwoman
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His Majesty & Her Majesty patriotically impersonated, last week, the roles of a stupid workman and workwoman trying to operate complex factory machinery on the good old British plan for "muddling through."
From Time Magazine Archive
A sighted brushmaker employing a hundred workwomen states that she must be a very good workwoman who can earn six shillings a week at eight hours a day.
From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Frances Martin
Every ingenious workwoman will find out patterns of her own more or less.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle
The "fitter," for instance, must be a skilled workwoman, the flatness and proper set of the shirt front depending upon correct fitting at the neck.
From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell
She resolved therefore to become a workwoman, and to employ in this way the leisure she possessed from household avocations.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
The workwomen who are able to execute certain more difficult parts of the watch get higher wages, and can earn from five to ten francs a day.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2011
Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or bows over their right eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
There it was one of her functions to pay the workwomen; and for each of them there were two livres, one of which always remained in her hands.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
We thought the whole matter well over, and considered it probable that a gate in the wall would be left permanently open to facilitate the comings and goings of the workwomen in the early morning.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The workwomen who had now taken up their abode at the Grange were both efficient and clever.
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade
