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1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Shopman, tabernarius.

1591 in W. M. Williams Ann. Worshipful Company Founders (1867) 74 Leaden Waits ar and have been used time out of mynd by all Shoppmen and Sellers of smaller Wares.

1626 N. Breton Fantasticks sig. F2^v The Shop men keepe their shops, and their seruants goe to dinner.

1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Medicinal Materials ii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Ccc2^v* The best of medicinal Earths, is that..the shop-men call Lemnian Earth, and sometimes Sigillated Earth.

1737 Daily Jrnl. 5 Mar. Employment is wanting for several Persons in the following Particulars, viz... For a Rider for a Tradesman, a Receiver of Bills, for a Shopman, &c.

1782 R. Cumberland Anecd. Painters Spain II. 216 Who would not rather appeal to a court, than a counting-house? Who would not rather submit and be made a sacrifice to a kingly fiat, than a shopman's firme?

1821 Ld. Byron Let. 2 June (1978) VIII. 132 He would have sent me a shopman's account from his ledger.

1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last iv. 152 He [sc. the consumer] pays, probably, an intermediate ship-owner, velvet merchant, and shopman.

1888 G. Meredith Stave of Roving Tim vi The shopman piles a heap While I perhaps am fasting.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 226 The shopman let two volumes fall on the counter.

1975 Skiing Dec. 124/1 The shopman generously handed me free loaners to ski on while the repairs were being made.

1662 A. Petrie Compend. Hist. Catholick Church i. 500 They [sc. Priests] are become shop-men to the rich Merchant the Pope, in selling his wares, pardons in every Countrey, to make him rich.

1711 tr. L. Bordelon Hist. Ridiculous Extravagancies Monsieur Oufle iv. 21 This Spark was Shop man to one of the most famous Traders in the City.

1758 B. Thornton Idler 22 July 121 My Wife, though she could be of as much use as a Shopman to me, if she would put her hand to it, is now only in my way.

1829 Ann. Reg. 1828 Law Cases 370/2 William Noble, shopman with Mr. Rymer, Portsburgh, knew the prisoner Burke.

1888 W. H. White Mysterious Portrait in Autobiogr. Mark Rutherford (ed. 2) 319 A shopman was at the counter, and I asked him whether a lady, my sister, had not just left the shop.

1906 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 341 He asks himself..how the shop-man or the shop-lady can bear to be barked at in the manner he constantly hears used to them by customers.

1955 A. West Heritage ii. 92 Max at last pushed a handful of money into the shopman's grasp and propelled us both out of the shop by main force.

2002 Independent 16 Dec. (Review section) 9/2 Clara makes comforting noises to the tree, as the shop man strings it up and nicks off the manky branches with a Swiss Army knife.

1861 Rep. Directors Michigan Central Railroad 23 Running extra trains, caused extra enginemen and firemen, whose services in the shops never are as profitable as those of regular shopmen.

1926 Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. Mr. Cramp asked the Court to say that there should be one award for the whole of the shopmen employed on the railways of Great Britain.

1960 Listener 18 Aug. 250/1 They were trainmen, shopmen, telegraph operators, and so on, all highly specialized in their respective callings.

2014 York Press (Nexis) 5 Mar. Railway shopmen had also announced their intention of submitting again the claim for a 40-hour week.

1817 Trial A. M'Laren & T. Baird 96 If he got rid of every one copy he was possessed of, shopmanlike he exacted his groat for every one of them which he sold.

1871 Tinsley's Mag. Feb. 31/2 The low shopmanlike principle on which the helpless crowd that comes for amusement is manipulated.

1955 F. T. Macartney Furnley Maurice (Frank Wilmot) 18 As he was about to wrap them up he paused, and in mock shopmanlike manner asked whether I would read them now or take them with me.