Definition of "tricoteuse"

tricoteuse

noun
plural tricoteuses
1. A woman who knits; used especially of those who knitted at meetings and at executions during the French Revolution.
  Quotations
  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.
  2014 April 24, Alan Cowell, “At Pistorius trial, Twitterati have their day in court”, in The New York Times‎