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munitionette colloq.|mjuːnɪʃəˈnɛt|
[f. munition n. + -ette.]
A female worker in a munition factory.
1915Daily Sketch 9 Nov. 13/1 (heading) Munitionettes who receive threepence an hour. 1917Daily News 17 May 3/1 A shell-shop filled with blue-clad mob-capped cheering munitionettes. 1919Punch 7 May 366/2 Work for the ex-munitionette drawing unemployment pay. 1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down ii. xiii. 381 He had taken a little flutter with a munitionette from the Wirtley Works. |