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
All my makings and mendings and turnings are done at home by a clever little workwoman, under my own superintendance, and I am most careful and economical.
From Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches by Black, Helen C.
If you were a good workwoman, it paid well.
From The Shadow by Ovington, Mary White
Every ingenious workwoman will find out patterns of her own more or less.
From Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery by Buckle, Mary
If we have earlier typified nature as a great workwoman, and we still hold to the statement, we must now add that the static condition, the condition of rest, does not imply any mechanical labor.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Engels, Friedrich
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
Two or three workwomen will at once be set on the alterations.
From Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' by Reed, Helen Leah
Ef you don't draw that loop up clever and tight, you don't get the quilting, and the quilting's the feature that none of the workwomen in West London can master.
From Good Luck by Meade, L. T.
Flavia was one of her best workwomen then, as she has been ever since.
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various
