tricoteuse

Already displeased with the manners of Descoings, this illustrious "tricoteuse" of the Jacobin club regarded the beauty of his wife as a kind of aristocracy.

The Celibates Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Already displeased with the manners of Descoings, this illustrious "tricoteuse" of the Jacobin club regarded the beauty of his wife as a kind of aristocracy.

The Two Brothers Honor�� de Balzac 1824

Gamelin and Brotteaux had by this time a number of late comers behind them and amongst these several women of the Section, including a stalwart, handsome _tricoteuse_, in head-kerchief and sabots, wearing a sword in a shoulder belt, a pretty girl with a mop of golden hair and a very tumbled neckerchief, and a young mother, pale and thin, giving the breast to a sickly infant.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

The tall _tricoteuse_, pointing her finger at an old man, strongly suspected of being an unfrocked monk, swore it was the "Capuchin" yonder who was the cut-purse.

Dieux ont soif. English Anatole France 1884

If seeing a man lose a privileged title for his arrogant folly is mob rule, then kindly pass this tricoteuse her knitting needles.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Allison Pearson 2012

Dickens has her as a tricoteuse in English, a knitter, one of those terrible women who would take their knitting and watch the public beheadings in Paris during the revolution.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph Daisy Bowie-Sell 2012

I'm going to learn how to knit so I can be a tricoteuse as the tumbrils roll past.

Guy Fawkes' blog 2009

How is it possible to believe, what is however the fact, that an old _tricoteuse_, a former friend of Danton, and now the abbess of a convent of Ursulines, should actually, by the help of her nephew, an obscure organist in Paris, have so bewitched the whole electoral college that this upstart has been elected by a large majority? "

The Deputy of Arcis Honor�� de Balzac 1824