saleswoman

Noun

saleswoman (plural saleswomen)

1. A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
   • The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known.1911, Harper's Magazine
   • We stop walking a second and look around at the spectacle before us. There's something Felliniesque about a department store cosmetics section. You stand here on a Saturday morning, dressed in the standard mall-casual suburban wardrobe, gazing at a chamber glittering with chandeliers, populated by...2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the Mall: The Geography of Shopping by the Author of Why We Buy

   Synonyms:

   saleslady, vendress