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  • noun Plural form of floorwalker.

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Examples

  • Saks floorwalkers, cashiers, a team of sweating porters to haul the merchandise from the store to the motorcade … chiropractors to treat those porters.

    Zing the Bling… - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

  • Her education had taken place on the job, behind cash registers and display counters, in the offices of managers and floorwalkers, at the service of customers.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Her education had taken place on the job, behind cash registers and display counters, in the offices of managers and floorwalkers, at the service of customers.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • Her education had taken place on the job, behind cash registers and display counters, in the offices of managers and floorwalkers, at the service of customers.

    Some Fun Antonya Nelson 2006

  • And put out an emergency call, by inter-department telephone, not by public address, to floorwalkers from the fifth floor down, to gather up all male clerks and other store personnel in their departments, arm them with anything they can find, and rush them to Chinaware.

    Null-ABC H. Beam Piper 1934

  • If they shot floorwalkers after a fire in the department store because they spoke with an accent they had always had, then certainly the floorwalkers would not be expected to return when the store opened again for business.

    A Farewell To Arms Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1929

  • But to floorwalkers all women's faces are horrible.

    Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926

  • "One of the floorwalkers -- died of heat prostration," she said, looking very much upset.

    Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

  • Among the other floorwalkers, and particularly in the gorgeously uniformed attendant at the front door (who was outraged by Gissing's habit of escorting special customers to their motors) moved anger, envy, and sneers.

    Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

  • Down in the basement of this palatial store was a little dressing room and lavatory for the floorwalkers, where they doffed their formal raiment and resumed street attire.

    Where the Blue Begins Christopher Morley 1923

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