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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A girl or young woman who works or is engaged in some useful manual employment.

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Examples

  • Then, turning towards Rose-Pompon, who was more and more surprised at hearing so fine a lady call the workgirl her sister, she added: "I am ready whenever you please, mademoiselle."

    The Wandering Jew — Volume 10 Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • Then, turning towards Rose-Pompon, who was more and more surprised at hearing so fine a lady call the workgirl her sister, she added: "I am ready whenever you please, mademoiselle."

    The Wandering Jew — Complete Eug��ne Sue 1830

  • The girl was dressed like a young lady, not like a workgirl.

    Lieutenant Yergunov's Story 2006

  • Peter Hawkins, a clerk with ideals, has a youthful escapade with a workgirl named Evie Wills.

    Bones in London Edgar Wallace 1903

  • She was of the usual type seen in the streets of Islington, poorly dressed with some attempt at faded finery -- probably a workgirl in some city factory.

    The Seven Secrets William Le Queux 1895

  • The other, a workgirl, tried to smile and gave a deep sigh.

    A Royal Prisoner Pierre Souvestre 1894

  • To avoid standing idle, Laptev took some trimmings from a workgirl and let her go; then listened to a customer, a merchant from Vologda, and told a clerk to attend to him.

    The Darling and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • In a simple woollen dress with a kerchief on her head, with a modest sunshade, but laced in, slender, in expensive foreign boots -- it was a talented actress playing the part of a little workgirl.

    The Chorus Girl and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • How unlike the shrill discord whereby the ordinary workgirl expresses her foolish mirth!

    The Nether World George Gissing 1880

  • Nana might indulge in riotous living if she chose, but when she came home to her mother's she ought to dress like a workgirl.

    L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871

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