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 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

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

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

She was an unskilled workwoman, not especially gifted in any way or fitted by her upbringing to earn her daily bread.

From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray