shoemaker

[ US /ˈʃuˌmeɪkɝ/ ]
[ UK /ʃˈuːme‍ɪkɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who makes or repairs shoes
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How To Use shoemaker In A Sentence

  • Gin he had hauden till 's fiddle, he wad hae been playin 'her the nicht, in place o' 's airm lyin 'at 's side like a lang lingel (ligneul -- shoemaker's thread).' Robert Falconer
  • Smiling broadly, the shoemaker wrote out an order for three pairs of shoes. FINAL RESORT
  • In fifteenth-century Italy, shoemakers created an eroticized platform shoe for women called the chopine. Leora Tanenbaum: Our Stripper Shoes, Ourselves
  • He is drawn to the lanes of the city day after day, his camera capturing images of locksmiths, shoemakers, barbers, tailors and residents going about their daily affairs.
  • But next day when the cobbler ventured to criticise the legs, the painter came forth from his hiding-place and recommended the cobbler to stick to the shoes -- advice which in the words of the Latin version of the story also has been adopted as a proverb, _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_ ( "Let not the shoemaker overstep his last"). Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young
  • As we passed along the narrow street, Antonio was hailed with an "Ola" from a species of shop in which three men, apparently shoemakers, were seated. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula
  • Ladies Din, also trained by Canani and the loser by a nose to Silic in the 1999 Shoemaker, ran second again - this time a half-length behind his stablemate.
  • When a baker sells his bread for money to a shoemaker, he has supplied the shoemaker with his saved unconsumed bread.
  • The shoemaker himself was there as well, listening to his little transistor radio.
  • At every halt of the wagons a shoemaker would be seen searching for a lapstone; a gunsmith would be mending a rifle, and weavers would be at their wheels or looms. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West
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