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- noun Plural form of
shoemaker .
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Especially those craftsmen whose skills could be easily separated into smaller steps and assigned to a number of lower paid workers — such as shoemakers, locksmiths, carpenters, printers, masons, cabinet makers, and those in the needle trades — working men emphasized the importance of their skill and training.
Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840
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Slaves worked in the fields alongside their owners, and many of them worked their way into more skilled jobs as craftsmen, such as shoemakers, blacksmiths and woodworkers.
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"So you try to best the other 'shoemakers' by building strange contraptions in your basement?"
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Thus, in the Papal States, up to the time of the French Revolution, many guilds (such as shoemakers, carpenters, etc.) had a notary public and a lawyer who were bound to transact for a few pence the legal business of the members of the guild.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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There are many useful mechanics among them, such as shoemakers, blacksmiths and carpenters.
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He saw only the Infanta and her two millions of dowry, and he knew that by calling Parliament together to ask subsidies for an anti-Catholic war he should ruin those golden matrimonial prospects for his son, while encouraging those "shoemakers," his subjects, to go beyond their "last," by consulting the representatives of his people on matters pertaining to the mysteries of government.
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He saw only the Infanta and her two millions of dowry, and he knew that by calling Parliament together to ask subsidies for an anti-Catholic war he should ruin those golden matrimonial prospects for his son, while encouraging those "shoemakers," his subjects, to go beyond their "last," by consulting the representatives of his people on matters pertaining to the mysteries of government.
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He saw only the Infanta and her two millions of dowry, and he knew that by calling Parliament together to ask subsidies for an anti-Catholic war he should ruin those golden matrimonial prospects for his son, while encouraging those "shoemakers," his subjects, to go beyond their "last," by consulting the representatives of his people on matters pertaining to the mysteries of government.
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He saw only the Infanta and her two millions of dowry, and he knew that by calling Parliament together to ask subsidies for an anti-Catholic war he should ruin those golden matrimonial prospects for his son, while encouraging those "shoemakers," his subjects, to go beyond their "last," by consulting the representatives of his people on matters pertaining to the mysteries of government.
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Among the featured zapateros, or "shoemakers," is the recently deceased José "Pepe" Gonzalez, who made custom boots for presidents Eisenhower, Reagan and Bush Sr.
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