tricoteuse
English edit
Etymology edit
From French tricoteuse.
Noun edit
tricoteuse (plural tricoteuses)
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tricoteuse f (plural tricoteuses)
- female equivalent of tricoteur
Further reading edit
- “tricoteuse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.