longshorewoman

[ lawng-shawr-woom-uhn, -shohr-, long- ]

noun

, plural long·shore·wom·en.

1. a woman employed on the wharves of a port, as in loading and unloading vessels.

Gender Note

See -woman.

Word History and Origins

Origin of longshorewoman¹

longshore(man) + -woman

Example Sentences

The Mar�chale dragged out Frederick; Hussonnet took the windmill; the 'longshorewoman put out her joints like a circus-clown; the merry-andrew exhibited the manœuvres of an orang-outang; the female savage, with outspread arms, imitated the swaying motion of a boat.

From Project Gutenberg

He felt somewhat stunned, like a man coming out of a ship, and in the visions that haunted his first sleep, he saw the shoulders of the fishwife, the loins of the 'longshorewoman, the calves of the Polish lady, and the head-dress of the female savage flying past him and coming back again continually.

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"Take care of her wings!" cried the 'longshorewoman through the window.

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But the 'longshorewoman, whose light toes barely skimmed the floor, seemed to conceal under the suppleness of her limbs and the seriousness of her face all the refinements of modern love, which possesses the exactitude of a science and the mobility of a bird.

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The doctor consoled him by pronouncing eulogies on his mistress, the lady in the dress of a 'longshorewoman.

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