workwomen
- plural of workwoman.
Example Sentences
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The workwomen who are able to execute certain more difficult parts of the watch get higher wages, and can earn from five to ten francs a day.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2011
Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or bows over their right eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
The workwomen who had now taken up their abode at the Grange were both efficient and clever.
From Red Rose and Tiger Lily or, In a Wider World by Meade, L. T.
Then the large shop, with sleeping partners, that buys of the convent, and destroys by degrees the smaller shops which employed the workwomen.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules
There it was one of her functions to pay the workwomen; and for each of them there were two livres, one of which always remained in her hands.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
