tricoteuse

French

tricoteuse (plural tricoteuses)

1. 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:

     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.

From tricoter +‎ -euse

tricoteuse f (plural tricoteuses) (Masculine: tricoteur)

1. knitter (female)

• “tricoteuse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).