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- noun Plural form of
shoeshiner .
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Examples
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There are estimates that there are approximately 1 million undocumented Haitians in the D.R., many of which are children who are working on the streets as window washers or shoeshiners.
Global Voices in English » Dominican Republic: The Financial Cost of Undocumented Haitian Immigrants 2009
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The photographs include images synonomous with the beat of the streets: children selling chiclets; spontaneous outbursts of nationalistic fervor: a man hunched in the open boot of a car, hoisting the Mexican flag; laughing shoeshiners; people on the phone; a pregnant woman waiting to catch a bus; dust and cars and graffiti and miles of concrete.
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The photographs include images synonomous with the beat of the streets: children selling chiclets; spontaneous outbursts of nationalistic fervor: a man hunched in the open boot of a car, hoisting the Mexican flag; laughing shoeshiners; people on the phone; a pregnant woman waiting to catch a bus; dust and cars and graffiti and miles of concrete.
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I saw him stop to talk to senators and shoeshiners.
ONE GREAT TRUTH JONATHAN FALWELL 2008
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Mr. Cooper recently brought together 30 shoeshiners, between the ages of 8 and 17, for a know-your-rights seminar from a Bolivian Supreme Court justice and a banker who had once been a shoeshine boy himself.
Shoeshine Boys 2008
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The shoeshiners in Bolivia weren't an easy audience.
Shoeshine Boys 2008
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But it is also hard to change the shoeshiners 'deeply ingrained world view.
Shoeshine Boys 2008
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Under the hedge trees are the numerous chairs of the shoeshiners.
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Under the hedge trees are the numerous chairs of the shoeshiners.
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We made our way across the crowded plaza, dodging shoeshiners and magazine stands, to the neighboring Catedral Metropolitana, wobbly since construction began in 1573 atop debris from the destroyed Aztec temple complex.
unknown title 2009
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