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
Still, no marked peculiarity was manifested until after she had attained forty years of age, at which time we find her employed as a workwoman at an upholsterer’s shop at Exeter.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
"Has the workwoman brought her bill with her, Reynolds?" asked Mrs. Danvers.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
Every ingenious workwoman will find out patterns of her own more or less.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Mary Buckle
If shoes are too great a luxury, the workwoman clatters along in sabots, congratulating herself that they are cheap and that they never wear out.
From Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell
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
This caprice was swayable by every breath, and paid a merely subordinate regard, in the choice of workwomen, to the circumstances of skill, cheapness and diligence.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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
Tell me, Mademoiselle, if there was a strike here, could you count upon your workwomen?
From Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux by Bernard Miall
