Etymology
Origin of floorer
Example Sentences
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He worked temporarily in Rada’s school as a floorer.
From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022
The 56-year-old retired floorer has been making weekly runs since the crisis began and plans to continue, even though his lead lines were replaced last week.
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2019
This was said with a kind of contempt which was quite a floorer to the new wiseacre.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
Which to take the first of the turnstile wings is the floorer.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various
This was something of a floorer; I felt myself grow red-hot.
From The Jewel of Seven Stars by Stoker, Bram
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