Gender
See -woman.
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Origin of forewoman
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When Juror No. 5 showed up in a navy blazer, Laurey Trailer, who later became forewoman, got annoyed.
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
“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
“It was a difficult case because we all trust law enforcement,” the jury forewoman, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 8, 2023
Even the forewoman, who was thin-lipped and shrewish, seemed a little afraid of her.
From The Beggar Man by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)
The forewomen also conform to this arrangement, but wear washing dresses of blue cotton to distinguish them from the girls.
From The Food of the Gods A Popular Account of Cocoa by Head, Brandon
He began with closer individual supervision by the forewomen.
From Increasing Human Efficiency in Business, a contribution to the psychology of business by Scott, Walter Dill
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 Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)
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 Vorst, Marie Van
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 Miller, John Maurice
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