workwoman

Example Sentences

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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 was an indefatigable workwoman, rivalling her husband as an expert catcher, and all the year through she talked of little else but the coming run.

From Legends of Vancouver by Johnson, E. Pauline

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 Jókai, Mór

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 Ruskin, John

She resolved therefore to become a workwoman, and to employ in this way the leisure she possessed from household avocations.

From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden