shopwalker

American

[shop-waw-ker] / ˈʃɒpˌwɔ kər /

noun

British.

a floorwalker.

shopwalker British

/ ˈʃɒpˌwɔːkə /

noun

US equivalent: floorwalker. a person employed by a departmental store to supervise sales personnel, assist customers, etc

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Etymology

Origin of shopwalker

First recorded in 1860–65; shop + walker

Example Sentences

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This was an act of affection, and a triumphant assertion of the relationship—something more for those foppish shopwalkers to put in their pipes and smoke.

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Whether you or I command this ship matters no more than the two buttons on the back of the frock coat of a shopwalker.

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I suppose it was inevitable, and I did my best to appear patient, but in common fairness a judge has no more right than a shopwalker to import a trade manner into private life.

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An hour later he was being shepherded, scarlet in the face, by a posse of stentorian shopwalkers, through an embarrassing wilderness of ladies' hosiery to the Glove Department of an establishment in Oxford Street.

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He was the principal shopwalker, and Mr. Martin had a great respect for him.

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