Dictionary entry
Shoemaker
Pronunciation: /ˈʃuːmeɪkə/
Pronunciation
/ˈʃuːmeɪkə/
Myanmar Meaning
ဖိနပ်လုပ်သူ၊ ချုပ်သူ။
Definition
shoemaker /'ʃu:meÇkǝ(r)/ n ဖိနပ္လုပ္သူ၊ ခ်ဳပ္သူ။ shoemaking n [U]
Examples
- ‘Although the young town had its own blacksmiths
- wheelwrights
- shoemakers and ropemakers
- it never developed its own business centre.’
- ‘Craftsmen plied their trades as cloth makers
- shoemakers
- tailors
- carpenters
- butchers and malt makers while weekly or monthly markets provided an outlet for surplus agricultural produce.’
- ‘The hats were the size of a coin
- with each little shoe fashioned by famous French shoemakers of the time.’
- ‘At the bottom of the scale were trades serving local markets
- such as carpenters
- masons
- bakers
- or shoemakers.’
- ‘It was then that shoemakers began creating individual shoes for the left and right feet.’
- ‘The balls were probably made by a souter (a shoemaker or cobbler)
- whose stitching skills were essential to producing a good ball.’
- ‘Within a country when a baker imports shoes from a shoemaker he pays with the bread he produced.’
- ‘Spanish shoemakers are complaining that Chinese shoes take away almost all their business
- by undercutting their prices
- party through illegal means.’
- ‘Musicians
- like shoemakers
- construction workers and teachers
- are so accustomed to being underpaid that many people consider it counter-productive to even think of paying them fairly.’
- ‘It had two butchers
- two coopers
- two weavers
- a shoemaker
- blacksmith
- a cornmill
- a pound
- a lime kiln and
- of course
- a pub.’
- ‘The membership was composed not as yet of the very poor but of disgruntled students and schoolteachers
- and the usual artisan élite of printers
- builders
- and shoemakers.’
- ‘Also
- dancers with mismatched feet can - and often do - fine-tune the size of each shoe with a special order to their shoemaker.’
- ‘But then we stepped out at Pingyao
- a perfect walled city where the little wooden shops have red lanterns hanging from them
- and shoemakers sit making satin slippers until 10 or 11 at night.’
- ‘The next largest industrial group were in the clothing trades
- most conspicuously tailors and shoemakers.’
- ‘The German shoemaker began selling sneakers with three stripes along the side more than 50 years ago
- and expanded into clothing around 1967.’
- ‘Quality shoemakers know this and offer a wide range of comfortable footwear options.’
- ‘He is drawn to the lanes of the city day after day
- his camera capturing images of locksmiths
- barbers
- tailors and residents going about their daily affairs.’
- ‘The designs are beautiful drawings
- but the costume builders and shoemakers must have had to make many adjustments for a dancer's body.’
- ‘I just picked up my new sandals from the shoemaker (a little hut by the side of the road