Forewoman [noun]

She was by them considered a good forewoman, kind, and ready to help a girl if a girl tried to earn more money.

The sempstresses-room looks exactly like a large milliner's shop, and here we found a forewoman with eighteen assistants at work.

She writes that she has found money to set up a dressmaking establishment, and that she is relying upon me to be her forewoman.

It paused on the correspondence room and its attractive forewoman.

The forewoman sent down word that No. 105 had not rung up that morning, and that I could have her key.

The star rose-maker of the shop, next to the forewoman (who was reputed the finest in America), was about twenty-five.

Each town had a forewoman who distributed the damaged clothing, after it had been disinfected and laundered, and kept all counts.

After breakfast there arrived some trunks from Paris with Spricht's forewoman and two fitters.

The under-forewoman said that working the treadle for paging was very hard work.

This gracious letter was accompanied by a long list of things, at sight of which the forewoman's eyes glittered with joy.