Gender
See -woman.
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Origin of forewoman
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After the jury got the case, Trailer, the forewoman, went home and watched “12 Angry Men,” a legal drama about conflict between jurors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
The deliberations continued for three days before the court reconvened and the forewoman delivered three unanimous guilty verdicts.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
The jury forewoman said Jennifer Crumbley wasn’t a “super reliable witness.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
“We all felt Mr. Lynch intended well,” Kitty Meese, the jury forewoman, told reporters, including one from The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
Naturally the forewoman was the spokeswoman for the girls.
From The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
A private dining-room is provided for the forewomen.
From The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Brandon Head
She said there were chances to make big wages there, because forewomen and draping hands were wanted more and girls who had anything in them had a better show than in a little place.
From The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel by John Maurice Miller
A study of the previous experience of foremen and forewomen made by the survey shows that they come from nearly every department of the factory.
From Wage Earning and Education by Rufus Rolla Lutz
In every kitchen there is a forewoman cook—there are these forewomen in every department of the work of the women, and they correspond rather to the "noncoms" among the men.
From The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
The forewomen have all four qualities, sometimes one, sometimes another predominating.
From The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls by Marie Van Vorst
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