needlewoman
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needlewomen
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noun
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See -woman.
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Origin of needlewoman
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A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The outline for the first series was based partly on the stories of Eileen's parents, an underbutler and a needlewoman in the Edwardian era, and partly by Jean's reading preferences.
From Time Magazine Archive
Guenever stitched away with the half-blank mind of a needlewoman, the other half of her brain moving idly among her troubles.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
What! that prim needlewoman so averse to young gentlemen, and who, moreover, was betrothed to a young man named Cosme?
From The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Vald?s
She used to go out as needlewoman; but suddenly her mother falls ill, and quickly she dies.
From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster
The clothing industry also employed tens of thousands of people, from skilled tailors and dressmakers in upscale shops to widowed needlewomen working 16-hour days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
On the top floor, out of sight, a few dozen tailors, pattern cutters, shoemakers, and needlewomen work on the orders.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
"It is a tradition of Philadelphia," answered the girl, "that her daughters should be expert needlewomen."
From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Cyrus Townsend Brady
It seemed to me such a pitiful little world, of milliners, lodging-house keepers, music-mistresses, fancy needlewomen and daughters in offices; and I was given the corresponding male standing.
From In Accordance with the Evidence by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
"I think—I am nearly sure, indeed—that if they are really expert needlewomen, we can find plenty for them to do in our own family connection; five families of us, you know."
From The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley
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