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- noun US An employee in a large
shop (especially adepartment store ) who acts assupervisor to sales staff, and assists customers.
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Examples
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Another review said of one of the Bond films that I looked like a "floor-walker who had been to Switzerland three times for a facelift".
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But all the day she suffered from an almost overwhelming desire to recite her sorrow to the world -- to the paying teller at the bank, to the elderly floor-walker in
CHAPTER XI 2010
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"How much would you expect?" the captain was asking, -- a most unsealike captain, in Daughtry's opinion; rather, a spick-and - span, brisk little business-man or floor-walker just out of a bandbox.
CHAPTER IX 2010
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He was a Bill Wrenn with the cosmopolitan polish of a floor-walker.
Our Mr. Wrenn 2004
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Hortense, who, because of the hovering floor-walker, was pretending to show Clyde some handkerchiefs, was now thinking how unfortunate that a whole twenty-four hours must intervene before she could bring him to view the coat with her — and so have an opportunity to begin her machinations.
An American Tragedy 2004
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He became a glorified floor-walker, greeting the men with new poise, no longer coyly subservient to pretty women.
Main Street 2004
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He knew she dressed very well, had always the best of everything in the house, and was inevitably waited upon by the head floor-walker at the very least.
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I approached the "floor-walker," and handing him my sample, said:
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He started back up the room, but the girl had disappeared, and, while he stood hesitating, a floor-walker approached.
The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson
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GLADYS: No, darling, he is the floor-walker in a slaughter house.
Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page
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