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Workwoman   Listen
noun
Workwoman  n.  (pl. workwomen)  A woman who performs any work; especially, a woman skilled in needlework.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Workwoman" Quotes from Famous Books



... leaves out of her diary; then she receded, cold and unresponsive, a statue cut out of a shadow. I was obliged to untie my cravat. Finally, I fell asleep and dreamed of Mary Ashburton crowned with the neat workwoman's cap of Francine Joliet. I returned to dinner considerably exalted, and just ...
— Lippincott's Magazine. Vol. XII, No. 33. December, 1873. • Various

... know how fond of you I am, and as sure as I'm called Mother Citron, I'll prove what I say. In a couple of minutes I'll put on my hat with the flowers and leave my workwoman in charge here. Then I'll take you myself to this M. Juve... if you're ...
— A Royal Prisoner • Pierre Souvestre

... now what the profit of the average sweater is likely to be, and then that of the workwoman, skilled and unskilled, taking our figures in every case from the Blue Book containing Mr. Burnett's report and confirmed by many workers. A small sweater in Brunswick Street employed a presser and a machinist, with two women for button-holes and felling, his business ...
— Prisoners of Poverty Abroad • Helen Campbell

... the blindness of the workwoman to the benefits to be derived from organization,—and because, moreover, it has not yet been proved that the trades-union, carried to its logical conclusion, is likely to be a panacea for the industrial woes of the sex which does ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson



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