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  • noun Plural form of chiropodist.

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Examples

  • To preserve this beauty, women visited masseuses as often as they did manicurists and chiropodists, and the facial massage became as necessary to women as to men who wished to retain their youthful looks.

    On How to Be Lovely | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • Chiropody also derived from the medical field, and licensed chiropodists were trained not only in massage, but in the anatomy of the foot.

    On How to Be Lovely | Edwardian Promenade 2010

  • I walked the Strip for three hours as the flashbacks exploded like strobe lights, starting at the Bellagio (Georgia chiropodists), across to Bally's and Paris and Planet Hollywood (hooker with braces), then the Luxor (tequila suicides) and New York, New York where I vaguely recall once paying a bride $500 for her veil.

    Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Two: Spending a Sober Month on the Vegas Strip? Don't Forget to Bring Your Own Stripper Paul Carr 2011

  • I walked the Strip for three hours as the flashbacks exploded like strobe lights, starting at the Bellagio (Georgia chiropodists), across to Bally's and Paris and Planet Hollywood (hooker with braces), then the Luxor (tequila suicides) and New York, New York where I vaguely recall once paying a bride $500 for her veil.

    Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Two: Spending a Sober Month on the Vegas Strip? Don't Forget to Bring Your Own Stripper Paul Carr 2011

  • Numerous evenings, extending into the small hours, were spent squashed around her kitchen table: her guests were artists, museum curators, Roman Catholic priests, chiropodists, soldiers and students.

    Fay, a woman of substance 2011

  • Foot fetishists and chiropodists aside, it's easy to see why it strikes a chord, combining radio-friendly rhythms and vocal acrobatics that sound like Sting jumping on the spot, desperate for a wee.

    This week's new singles 2012

  • In fact, a segregated New York of my childhood was filled with black professionals -- black doctors, ministers, dentists, lawyers like my father, real estate brokers, undertakers, chiropodists like my grandfather, pharmacists like my aunt, and the list goes on.

    David Jones: The Black Middle Class 2009

  • One wouldn't be able to summon chiropodists, masseuses, secretaries, barbers or clothes-pressers in a hurry ¦ but television, why not?

    In The Frame Francis, Dick 1976

  • For example, a recent example mentions an exchange between two chiropodists.

    The End of the Work Ethic 1972

  • Subsequent inquiry proves that they were chiropodists.

    Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various

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