floorwalker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of floorwalker
Example Sentences
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One former floorwalker confides that employees snap up the best pieces before customers can even see them.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2013
Lindsay is as nattily dressed as a floorwalker, Grouse as rumpled as an insomniac's bed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once a floorwalker in a Boston department store where he saved his wages to study for the priesthood.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this period the floorwalker, syncopater, broadcaster was earning $7,500 a year, but a malicious busybody informed the immigration authorities that he had overstayed his leave, and Versatile Gough went to Canada.
From Time Magazine Archive
If a floorwalker asked whether she intended buying anything, she could say, yes, buy it and show him a thing or two.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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