workwoman

Historical Examples

• But she was kept on all the same, for no other workwoman could iron a shirt with her style.

  L'Assommoir

  Emile Zola

• The London workwoman buys a pound for one penny, or at the most twopence.

  Prisoners of Poverty Abroad

  Helen Campbell

• A workwoman, friends, she, no less than a princess; and princess most in being so.

  Saint Ursula

  John Ruskin

• The "treachery" is all the greater if the objector is a workman or a workwoman.

  With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia

  John Ward

• And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times!

  Les Misrables

  Victor Hugo