shoemaker

[ˈʃuːmeɪkə^r] n → bottier mshoe polish n → cirage mshoe rack n → étagère f à chaussuresshoe repairer n → cordonnier/ière m/fshoe shop n → magasin m de chaussuresshoe size n → pointure f

shoemaker

[ˈʃuːˌmeɪkəʳ] n → calzolaio

shoe

(ʃuː) noun

1. an outer covering for the foot. a new pair of shoes.

2. (also ˈhorseshoe) a curved piece of iron nailed to the hoof of a horse.

verb – present participle ˈshoeing: past tense, past participles shod (ʃod) , shoed –

to put a shoe or shoes on (a horse etc).

shod (ʃod) adjective

with a shoe or shoes on.

ˈshoelace , (American) ˈshoestring noun

a kind of string or cord for fastening a shoe.

ˈshoemaker noun

a person who makes, repairs, or sells shoes.

on a shoestring

with or using very little money. He has to live on a shoestring.

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There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and was very honest: but still he could not earn enough to live upon; and at last all he had in the world was gone, save just leather enough to make one pair of shoes.

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"I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here.

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We cannot tell among the men who pass us, all clad alike in dull, sad-colored clothes, who is a knight and who is a merchant, who is a shoemaker and who is a baker.

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In the middle of the village lived old Dame Shoemaker; she sat and sewed together, as well as she could, a little pair of shoes out of old red strips of cloth; they were very clumsy, but it was a kind thought.

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I had never seen anything in that trunk but old boots and spurs and pistols, and a fascinating mixture of yellow leather thongs, cartridges, and shoemaker's wax.

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Two hundred years ago an old Dutch voyager likened its shape to that of a shoemaker's last.

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James Burne Worson was a shoemaker who lived in Leamington, Warwickshire, England.

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The whole night and the whole day the pot was made to boil; there was not a fire-place in the whole town where they did not know what was being cooked, whether it was at the chancellor's or at the shoemaker's.

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And now let us see how our city will be able to supply this great demand: We may suppose that one man is a husbandman, another a builder, some one else a weaver--shall we add to them a shoemaker, or perhaps some other purveyor to our bodily wants?

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Briggs's brother, a radical hatter and grocer, called his sister a purse-proud aristocrat, because she would not advance a part of her capital to stock his shop; and she would have done so most likely, but that their sister, a dissenting shoemaker's lady, at variance with the hatter and grocer, who went to another chapel, showed how their brother was on the verge of bankruptcy, and took possession of Briggs for a while.

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Hither they came, from the cornfields, from the clearing in the forest, from the blacksmith's forge, from the carpenter's workshop, and from the shoemaker's seat.

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Occasionally, there is a drowsy sound from some lone weaver's shuttle, or shoemaker's last, but it is stifled by the thick walls and heavy dungeon-door, and only serves to make the general stillness more profound.