forelady
Americannoun
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foreladies
plural
Sensitive Note
See lady.
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Origin of forelady
Example Sentences
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For five weeks Mrs. Cohen stayed away from her job as forelady in an overalls rental concern, to answer mail and telephone calls.
From Time Magazine Archive
“You got the idea now,” said the forelady to Francie.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The forelady stood below her—large, eagle-eyed woman, with square and wrinkled face, quite a mustache on her upper lip.
From The Nine-Tenths by James Oppenheim
Ada I loved—our forelady in the bead work—young, good-looking, intelligent.
From Working With the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker
The whim of a foreman or forelady, a day's sickness, a slackening in the trade, and she might be thrown out on the street.
From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington
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