Definitions
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- noun a person who
shines shoes and otherfootwear , usually for a fee
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Examples
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The shoeshiner may be the former sock maker after a painful transition, or it may be a different worker altogether.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Will that not create a new $50,000 job for a shoeshiner?
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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You may be justifiably angry at being forced out of the noble profession of sock making and into the humiliation of shoeshining, or at being thrown out of work while that brute the shoeshiner who lives across the street makes a fortune.
Math and Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In addition, rather than the token shoeshiner it did take a stab at showing that poverty was integrated.
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By and bye the shoeshiner came out and found me reading.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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The shoeshiner was now asking me whether anything was wrong with the polish he had put on my boots, so I thought it best to leave.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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Sweet yet unsentimental, understated yet rich in spirit, the film is populated by old souls who are a joy to watch, led by Andre Wilms as the shoeshiner who steps into the guardian angel role for an African boy who is in France illegally.
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The person who accompanied our film crew paid the shoeshiner and asked him if I could take a photo of him.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Nicole Garton 2011
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Cobb was a professional shoeshiner, who made his rounds around downtown Lexington, and often spoke out at city council meetings.
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23 For a while, he worked as a shoeshiner at a Lindy Hop nightclub.
HW Bio: Malcolm X « 2009
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