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  • noun Alternative form of shoe shop.

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Examples

  • His day-to-day style – if that is not too extravagant a word – consists of several dull variations on the proletarian outfit of ill-fitting T-shirt, baggy jeans, free airline socks – "Lufthansa are the best" – and lumpen footwear surely sold exclusively by a Slovenian shoeshop that has somehow missed the collapse of the Soviet bloc.

    Slavoj Žižek: interview 2010

  • You'll find him in the shoeshop at the end of this road.

    Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

  • Later, I met a Greek who kept a shoeshop in the city and knew the sages; I asked him why they had been so angry with the man.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

  • Dr. Pond introduced him as having been a shoemaker at San Francisco, who, upon conversion, about to be baptized in his church, was locked into his apartment of the shoeshop by some of his pagan friends, who thought that after the passing of the baptismal occasion of Sunday morning he would get over his desire to be a Jesus man.

    The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 04, April, 1890 Various

  • A few hours later, Maigret entered a shoeshop on Boulevard Raspail, where he learned that shoes of that description and size had been sold within the last two weeks.

    Maigret's War of Nerves Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1940

  • Detesting idleness, I pass my vacant time in business (he was a shoemaker at Horncastle, in Lincolnshire) and work in my shoeshop near the church day after day until such time as I am required elsewhere.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • While Leandro would be away working in the shoeshop, Lechuguino would visit the proof-reader's family; he now saw Milagros with the full consent of her parents.

    The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

  • In his shoeshop he taught such children, free of charge, to read, write, count, cook their food, and mend their shoes.

    The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization Ellwood Patterson Cubberley 1904

  • He is the cutter and fitter for E. Fuller & Co. 's shoeshop, where he is the only colored man employed.

    Evidences of Progress Among Colored People G. F. Richings 1902

  • The motortruck, too, in modern warfare is a shoeshop.

    Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Kelly Miller 1901

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