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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

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

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

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)