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 was a girl of from eighteen to twenty, rather below the middle size, and of a face and form little adapted to figure in a story.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

Every ingenious workwoman will find out patterns of her own more or less.

From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary

Mrs. Candy and her daughter even looked at each other and smiled over the demure, thoughtful little face of the workwoman; and Matilda got praise for her work.

From Opportunities by Warner, Susan

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