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
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 Campbell, Helen
She was an indefatigable workwoman, rivalling her husband as an expert catcher, and all the year through she talked of little else but the coming run.
From Legends of Vancouver by Johnson, E. Pauline
All my makings and mendings and turnings are done at home by a clever little workwoman, under my own superintendance, and I am most careful and economical.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
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 Everitt, Graham
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
I am inexperienced in the matter of wages, but I feel sure that you either employ inferior workwomen or that you underpay them.
From Patty's Success by Wells, Carolyn
Various places are chosen by sundry workmen and workwomen for this practice of waiting to be hired.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William
It is now a favor for her to receive any new customers, and I believe she has some thirty or forty workwomen in her employment.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
