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 workwoman seated herself on one of the swept stone steps, still holding the child in her arms, and they gazed long and earnestly at the writing above them.

From Soap-Bubble Stories For Children by Barry, Fanny

In 1878 she heard that one of the workmen was about to marry a workwoman, since dead, who was blind, deformed, and very much out of health.

From Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind by Martin, Frances

In a faded sky-blue dressing-gown trimmed with yellow woollen lace, Stasy is standing beside a workwoman from Worth's, who is busy fastening large solitaires upon the Princess's ball-dress.

From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip

A great sensation was caused in Italy a few decades ago when a humble workwoman, Signora Bassani, succeeded in rediscovering the peculiar stitch of the celebrated Venetian point, which had been lost for centuries.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine