saleswoman
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]saleswoman (plural saleswomen)
- A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
- 1911, Harper's Magazine:
- The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known.
- 2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy[1]:
- We stop walking a second and look around at the spectacle before us. There's something Felliniesque about a department store cosmetics section. You stand here on a Saturday morning, dressed in the standard mall-casual suburban wardrobe, gazing at a chamber glittering with chandeliers, populated by saleswomen wearing makeup and hair dramatic enough for opening night at La Scala.
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[edit]woman whose occupation is to sell things
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