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

"Do you know La Goualeuse and a young workwoman called Rigolette?" she inquired of Lorraine.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

She was an unskilled workwoman, not especially gifted in any way or fitted by her upbringing to earn her daily bread.

From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray

The workwoman was a girl of from eighteen to twenty, rather below the middle size, and of a face and form little adapted to figure in a story.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various