tricoteuse

English

Etymology

From French tricoteuse.

Noun

tricoteuse (plural tricoteuses)

1. A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.
   • 2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Sitting in the courtroom […] , their laptops and tablets propped before them, power cables snaking through convoluted adapters, the Twitterati have sight of witnesses at all times — the troubadours, or perhaps the tricoteuses, of the digital revolution.

French

Etymology

From tricoter +‎ -euse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁi.kɔ.tøz/

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Noun

tricoteuse f (plural tricoteuses)

1. female equivalent of tricoteur

Further reading

• “tricoteuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.