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

She had felt ashamed to be paid as a workwoman by one once her friend, and in social rank her equal; but now she raised her head, with a noble frankness and spirit.

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

"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

I am not a tradesman myself, and I don't care to make money out of a workwoman.

From Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 by Kock, Charles Paul de

The milliner—who was not unkind or hardhearted, only badly in debt—was touched, took her in hand with good-will, found her the most patient and earnest of pupils, and made her a good workwoman.

From Dickens' Stories About Children Every Child Can Read by Dickens, Charles