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 had felt ashamed to be paid as a workwoman by one once her friend, and in social rank her equal; but now she raised her head, with a noble frankness and spirit.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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
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
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
