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Word: needlewoman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

Before the enclosed grille of the Discalced Carmelite Convent in Cologne, a distinguished German philosopher nervously submitted to a test of humility: she sang a ditty for the brown-robed nuns assembled to examine her for entrance. Later, one of them asked anxiously: "Is she a good needlewoman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Gas-Chamber Martyr | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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