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tricoteuse

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Borrowed from French tricoteuse.

noun tricoteuses

  1. A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution. 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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@misc{tricoteuse_2026,
  title = {tricoteuse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tricoteuse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}