forelady

One day Katie, falling back on a woman’s always-respected excuse, told her forelady that it was her time of the month; she didn’t feel so good.

Just then the locker room door opened and a forelady came in.

The whim of a foreman or forelady, a day's sickness, a slackening in the trade, and she might be thrown out on the street.

It was almost twelve o'clock and no harm in calling the "forelady" in the cotton blouse department of the big factory.

And it was worth climbing five flights to have Miss Cross for a forelady.