shopwomen

At shop doors, shopmen, sometimes shopwomen, came to wipe their warm faces and examine the sky with anxious eyes.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

The "tweeny" develops into housemaid or cook; the young girls employed in superior shops to wait on the elder shopwomen hope to develop into their successors, and the girls who nurse babies on the doorsteps are, after all, acquiring knowledge and dexterity that may fit them for domestic service or for the management of their own families a few years later.

Youth and Sex Mary Scharlieb 1887

In lower middle life, and with the working classes, it is asserted that the women are not sufficiently taught to fulfill their mission properly; but, if in large towns the exigencies of trade use up a large portion of the female population, it is no wonder that they can not be at the same time good mill-hands, bookbinders, shopwomen, and mothers, cooks, and housewives.

Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

Brotteaux's thoughts suddenly turned to the world above him, -- how over his head all was noise and bustle, light and life, while the pretty shopwomen in the Palais de Justice behind their counters, loaded with perfumery and pretty knicknacks, smiled on their customers, happy people free to go where they pleased, -- and the picture doubled his despair.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

When he came opposite Archie, he took a brief survey of him in a careless, good-humored fashion, and then turned on his heel, bestowing a very cursory glance on Miss Masham, who stood shaking her black ringlets after the fashion of shopwomen, and waiting to know the gentleman's pleasure.

Not Like Other Girls Rosa Nouchette Carey 1874

I have no reason to suppose that the shopwomen were any more concerned while the Column was being undermined than they were before.

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

But even here, not only were the stores open as usual, but the military were doing their work in the midst of piles of trinkets exposed for sale on the pavement by the shopwomen.

The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

In lower middle life, and with the working classes, it is asserted that the women are not sufficiently taught to fulfill their mission properly; but, if in large towns the exigencies of trade use up a large portion of the female population, it is no wonder that they can not be at the same time good mill-hands, bookbinders, shopwomen, and mothers, cooks, and housewives.

Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

To the learned professions, however, the distinction between the shopwomen and milliners is, from their superior height, unrecognizable; while doctors and lawyers are again, I doubt not, massed by countesses and other blue-blooded realities, with the literary lions who roar at soirees and kettle-drums, or even with chiropodists and violin-players!

Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood George MacDonald 1864

Gentlemen affect the tastes and manners of grooms; delicate girls try hard to be as masculine as possible; shopwomen and valets are, in their own and in newspaper estimation, ladies and gentlemen; and the daughters of petty farmers leave their plainer mothers to carry the butter to market, while they remain at home to practise the piano.

Shams 1863