Meanings of poor needlewoman in English

That was what he was after; to find and carry away the poor needlewoman's supposed hoardings.

No detective will ever think of seeking the daughter of Count Ville-Handry in a poor needlewoman's garret.

How more effectively can this be done than by a life-picture of the poor needlewoman's trials and sufferings?

Owing to the clumsiness of her wooden fingers, the woman of the south was a poor needlewoman, but was a fine dancer.

She persisted in working, as industriously as if she had been a poor needlewoman, with serious reasons for being eager to get her money.

The poor needlewoman enjoys her laugh at the rude sewing-instruments of barbarous tribes: the stone-mason perhaps compares his tombs with the sarcophagi of ancient masters.

"His adopted sister, madame- apoorneedlewoman, who lives in the same house."