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
"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 Eugène Sue
He was simply told to go and work in the company's colliery, where there was better pay; and the workman or workwoman imagined this was an advance, not a degradation.
From Black Diamonds by Mór Jókai
A workwoman, friends, she, no less than a princess; and princess most in being so.
From Saint Ursula Story of Ursula and Dream of Ursula by John Ruskin
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
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
It is now a favor for her to receive any new customers, and I believe she has some thirty or forty workwomen in her employment.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
The heads of the manifold trades are naturally and properly concerned primarily with turning raw boys and girls into good workmen and workwomen.
From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott
As to the workwomen, they looked upon him much as a Prince Rodolphe,—for they had all read "The Mysteries of Paris,"—and admired his tall, slender figure and his careful dress.
From Jack 1877 by Mary Neal Sherwood
