floorwalker
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of floorwalker
Example Sentences
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One former floorwalker confides that employees snap up the best pieces before customers can even see them.
From Slate • Oct. 17, 2013
It seems the only fitting return for the hospitality of his welcome, for the reassuring absence of the officious floorwalker.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has all the worldliness of a floorwalker, and looks as if his last adventure were spending two weeks in a Swiss clinic getting a facelift.
From Time Magazine Archive
His friend Rodman Wanamaker, who knew that besides looking the apotheosis of a floorwalker Grover Whalen had real executive ability, made him general manager of Wanamaker's Manhattan store.
From Time Magazine Archive
That floorwalker could have simply said that monkeys bite or that popcorn is not their natural diet or something like that—but instead he had to think he was a schoolteacher.
From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel
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