The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shopwoman \Shop"wom`an\, n.; pl. Shopwomen. A woman employed in a shop.
Wiktionary
n. A woman employed in a shop.
Usage examples of "shopwoman".
The shopwoman opposite woke up and smilingly passed her hands over her forehead.
When he glanced up, the shopwoman was just biting into a piece of cake that was spread with brown jam.
What you got to do is to write a letter to Miss Kate's aunt, telling her as how Miss Kate's left properly in the basket, and meaning to get herself hired as a housemaid, or a shopwoman, very likely.
I made up my mind to get out the back way, if there was a back way, and I asked the shopwoman if I could step out there and look for the escaped slave, who was believed to be in hiding back there somewhere, and said I was an officer in disguise, and my pard was yonder at the door with one of the murderers in charge, and would she be good enough to step there and tell him he needn’t wait, but had better go at once to the further end of the back alley and be ready to head him off when I rousted him out.