adwoman
Americannoun
Sensitive Note
See woman.
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Peggy Olson, the striving adwoman on the make, has recently been taken up as the patron saint of quitters.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022
The poor priest and the sharp-elbowed adwoman make an unlikely couple, to say the least, but ultimately the book is more interested in affairs of the soul than of the heart.
From Slate • Apr. 6, 2015
Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doris Day is a high-powered adwoman who never gets behind in her work.
From Time Magazine Archive
Doris Day and Rock Hudson as adman and adwoman in a stock situation comedy worked out as smoothly as a chess problem: opening gambit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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