A floorwalker is called a shopwalker in England. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I heard him speak, and he had a goodish accent, as of a clerk or shopwalker. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
'The guinea stoles?' she inquired from a shopwalker. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
'You'll probably find them over there, madam,' said the shopwalker, pointing. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
She wonders would they change it, if she went back and asked to see the shopwalker?. From Wordnik.com. [Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
"Here," she said to the smiling shopwalker, "I want to know by whom this cloak was sold, and to what person.". From Wordnik.com. [The Silent House] Reference
"Would it not be simpler if we sent the account to your father, missy?" suggested the shopwalker, coming to join the assistant at the counter. From Wordnik.com. [The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story] Reference
With a gesture that revealed the shopwalker, he led Syme down a short, iron-bound passage, the still agonised Gregory following feverishly at their heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Thursday] Reference
Jobson, a shopwalker, who gave evidence to the effect that he followed her through the different departments and saw her take the things mentioned in the indictment. From Wordnik.com. [The Holiday Round] Reference
The theft had been proved by Albert Jobson, a shopwalker, who gave evidence to the effect that he followed her through the different departments and saw her take the things mentioned in the indictment. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Days] Reference
'Mr. Randall,' the cashier called out coldly, and a grave and gigantic shopwalker appeared who knew not the name of Albert Shawn, and who firmly told Mr.. Shawn that if she wished to make a complaint she must make it at the Central Inquiry Office, ground-floor, Department 1A. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
Darnby Frere, who was a student of Henry James's works, and therefore constantly made elaborate guesses on matters that did not concern him, and then forgot them because -- unlike Mr. James's guesses -- they were always wrong, gave the newcomer credit for being perhaps a shopwalker, or perhaps a. From Wordnik.com. [Living Alone] Reference
Does the reader realise that all the men in the whole world who are giving any considerable proportion of their time to this cancer research would pack into a very small room, that they are working in little groups without any properly organised system of intercommunication, and that half of them are earning less than a quarter of the salary of a Bond Street shopwalker by those vastly important inquiries?. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
"Sir," said a shopwalker, with the utmost politeness, "a gentleman has been waiting three quarters of an hour for the directory. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"My dear fellow, I would rob St. Paul's Cathedral if I could, but I could no more scoop a till when the shopwalker wasn't looking than I could bag the apples out of an old woman's basket. From Wordnik.com. [The Amateur Cracksman] Reference
The shopwalker eyes the goods in hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
They appealed to the shopwalker. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 5, 1919] Reference
"But where has the shopwalker got to?". From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03] Reference
The shopwalker turned his back on her. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
The policeman and the shopwalker smiled. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
We ask a courteous shopwalker, who in flawless. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
'I-- I beg pardon, miss,' said the shopwalker. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
All sold out, 'repeated the second shopwalker. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
And the second shopwalker also turned his back. From Wordnik.com. [Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes] Reference
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