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

These lines are struck with great rapidity, and with mathematical truth, by an instrument called a "beam compass," in the use of which this workwoman is most expert.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various

Then my father died; and I came to Paris, where I went into a shop as a simple workwoman.

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

Let this workwoman, whom the opposition of the convent has crushed, crawl to the gate of the convent—can she find an asylum there?

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules

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.