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 machine to sew hurries everything, and you find the workwoman sans ambition and busy only to hurry and be one with the machine.

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

"Yes, I am afraid I am very little indeed," returned the child, and began to sob, so that the milliner was touched, and took her in hand and made her a clever workwoman.

From Charles Dickens' Children Stories by Dickens, Charles

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