Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A saleswoman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saleswoman; a woman who waits upon customers in a shop or store.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A woman who is employed as a
salesclerk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a woman salesperson
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Examples
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Yet the saleslady is a good worker considering she's a princess; even a literary commissar might regret an act of inégalité here.
The Mary McCarthy Case Mailer, Norman 1963
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I don't give the shit if the saleslady is a panhandler in Bumfuck, Egypt right now ...
unclebob Diary Entry unclebob 2000
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Only her subconscious sense of humour, which warned her it would be ridiculous from Peter Rolls's "saleslady" to Peter Rolls himself, made her bite back the words that rushed to the end of her tongue.
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Previous to her marriage she was head "saleslady" at the "Little Sailor" * novelty shop, corner of Quai
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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"saleslady" does one leave the shop with a feebler sense of injury than was formerly inspired by a transaction at the counter -- a duller consciousness of being oneself the commodity that has changed hands?
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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The bottle-blond saleslady stood at attention behind her, batting her eyelash extensions in polite shock.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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Tuesday, I spent much of the day recovering from crazy saleslady.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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The saleslady would dot my own sturdy wrist with the potion, and still my father would stand there, tapping the edge of his American Express card on the glass counter over and over again in agony.
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The saleslady would dot my own sturdy wrist with the potion, and still my father would stand there, tapping the edge of his American Express card on the glass counter over and over again in agony.
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We walked around the store, trailed by a bewildered saleslady, until Dr. Salama stopped in front of a mulberry-pink satin brassiere.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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