Definition of "shopwoman" [shop•wom•an]

• A woman employed in a shop. (noun)

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• "Timmy went off to drink from a bowl of water that the shopwoman had put down for him."
• "A woman everlastingly boiling water on a bronze hibachi, or brazier, shifting the embers about deftly with brass tongs like chopsticks, and with a baby looking calmly over her shoulders, is the shopwoman; but she remains indifferent till she imagines that you have a definite purpose of buying, when she comes forward bowing to the ground, and I politely rise and bow too."
• "'Seven shillings,' said the shopwoman, taking the doll from her place, and displaying her pretty face and hands to the utmost advantage."