Tricoteuse

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Tricoteuse /tri ko tøz/ literally translates from the French as a (female) knitter. The term is used to refer to the old women who used to sit around the Guillotine knitting during the Reign of Terror in France in the 18th century.

In the 1982 film The Scarlet Pimpernel starring Anthony Andrews the Pimpernel disguises himself as a wine-selling tricoteuse in order to smuggle aristocrats out of Paris in wine barrels.