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shoemaking

American  
[shoo-mayk-ing] / ˈʃuˌmeɪk ɪŋ /

noun

  1. the skilled craft of designing, making, and repairing shoes.


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For Salcido, it was a way to preserve local jobs and prevent her firm's artisan shoemaking from being taken out of the US – which she was convinced would happen under a cost-cutting corporate buyer.

From BBC Jun. 14, 2026

As Francis dove deeper into the history of shoemaking in Los Angeles, one name kept coming up again and again: Pasquale Di Fabrizio.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2025

At 11, he spent a year in Naples studying shoemaking; upon his return, he opened a shop in his parents’ front hallway.

From Seattle Times Nov. 29, 2022

She married Eugen Sträussler, a doctor working in Zlín in Moravia, Czechoslovakia, for a shoemaking company called Bata, which ran the town.

From New York Times Sep. 7, 2022

Following his shoemaking phase, Cleofes began to traipse around the county carrying a little statue of Santa Inez del Campo, who was supposed to find missing animals.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

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