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
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 Charles Paul de Kock
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 Helen Campbell
"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 Charles Dickens
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 Jules Michelet
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
At the eighth Impressionist Exhibition, in 1886, Degas continued his realistic studies of modern life, showing drawings of the nude, of workwomen, and of jockeys.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
The workmen and workwomen left together shake hands all round without any particular courtesy or cordiality.
From Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux by Bernard Miall
Each lady had a number of workers, to whom she supplied patterns, pricked by herself, paying her workwomen at the end of every week, each day being notched on a tally.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various
