Meaning of tricoteuse | Babel Free

Definitions

A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.

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Examples

“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.”

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