Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A shop or factory in which shoes are made.

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  • noun a shop where shoes are sold

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Examples

  • A few times he was tempted to say to men who came in shabby jeans or in thin kurta pyjamas or in worn shoes that they should spend the money instead on clothes or in a shoe-shop.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • I would suggest looking at web sites like: shoe-shop. com, shoebuy. com, planetshoes. com, zappos. com, shoemall. com, etc … One word of caution: if the shoe is so inexpensive that it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

    My Five Best Ways to Buy Shoes Online | myFiveBest 2009

  • A few times he was tempted to say to men who came in shabby jeans or in thin kurta pyjamas or in worn shoes that they should spend the money instead on clothes or in a shoe-shop.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • The big vendors operate in horizontal markets – at a fundamental framework level the CMS will also have to be reused as base for a shoe-shop, and a dog charity, song vendor etc etc with different skins.

    The Audacity of Growth at Helpful Technology 2010

  • The big vendors operate in horizontal markets – at a fundamental framework level the CMS will also have to be reused as base for a shoe-shop, and a dog charity, song vendor etc etc with different skins.

    The pieces of the digital engagement puzzle at Helpful Technology 2009

  • I don't want to take her to a shoe-shop as they'll try to sell me rigid things.

    Thank goodness for a no-smacking rule ai731 2007

  • While passing through Galway I went back to the little children's shoe-shop in the Eyre Square centre where we got her some canvas things three months ago.

    Trip to Galway, Aran, and back again ailbhe 2005

  • And in the shoe-shop she took care to keep her own feet out of sight — no Harry met them.

    The Coat 2004

  • They were deemed more comfortable living above a redbrick shoe-shop on the roundabout.

    Absolute Friends Le Carre, John, 1931- 2003

  • She knelt down and steadied his foot on her knee like a girl in a shoe-shop.

    Tour de Force Brand, Christianna, 1907- 1955

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