In practice, "young working woman" referred primarily to those employed in the garment and millinery trades as seamstresses or shop assistants, the few occupations open to them in 19th century urban France, apart from domestic service. The sexual connotations which had long accompanied the word are made explicit in "Webster's Third New International Dictionary" (1976) which lists one of its meanings as a young woman who combines part-time prostitution with another occupation. "Webster's" quotes an example from Henry Seidel Canby's 1943 biography of Walt Whitman: