adwoman
Americannoun
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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
Rock Hudson and Doris Day 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
Kay Daly Leslie, 55, harddriving, creative adwoman behind most of Revlon, Inc.'s campaigns for 25 years, who helped build the huge U.S. cosmetics industry; of cancer of the pancreas; in Manhattan.
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
The admen and adwomen have great haircuts and fashionable eyewear, but they are uniformly inoffensive.
From BusinessWeek ● May 24, 2012
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