Definition of shoemaker
: a person whose occupation is making or repairing shoes
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Recent Examples of shoemaker from the Web
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As always, there's a connection back to Milwaukee through the shoemaker's business ties.
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Students have made drop leaf tables, shoemaker benches, stools, and potters wheels.
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Massine, a principal dancer for the famed Ballet Russe and choreographer of more than 100 ballets, devised his own memorable routines for the shoemaker.
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In it—a fantastical, 15-minute set piece within the film—a young woman is offered a pair of ruby-red pointe shoes by a demonic shoemaker.
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New York Stuart Weitzman, son of the midcentury shoemaker Seymour Weitzman, had planned to bypass the family business for a career on Wall Street.
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The effect is less old-school-meets-new-school and more old-school-meets-Italian-master-shoemaker.
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In 1977, while a student at Marin Civic Ballet, one of her teachers was Leonide Massine, who plays the film’s wicked shoemaker, crafter of the diabolical red shoes.
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Eventually, the Majids located the best leather workshop in Dar es Salaam, where 120 highly skilled shoemakers now assemble Wazi shoes.
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First Known Use of shoemaker
14th century
SHOEMAKER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of shoemaker for English Language Learners
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: someone who makes or repairs shoes
SHOEMAKER Defined for Kids
Definition of shoemaker for Students
: a person who makes or repairs shoes
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