shop-walker

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shop-walker (plural shop-walkers)

  1. (British) A retail store floor supervisor.
    • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
      Small trades-folk, male and female shopwalkers, better class artisans, lower middle-class women worn with household cares, occasional young folk in search of a sensation - these were the impressions which the audience conveyed to the trained observation of Malone.
    • 1981, P. L. Travers, chapter 11, in Mary Poppins, revised edition:
      The shop-walkers behaved curiously, too.

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