adwoman
Americannoun
plural
adwomenSensitive Note
See woman.
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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