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Definition of Shopboys
1. shopboy [n] - See also: shopboy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shopboys
Literary usage of Shopboys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes (1869)
"The answer was— ' They are not shopboys, they are young officers that these
competitive examina- ' tions have brought forward.' People do turn out in the ..."
2. Evangelical Christendom: Christian Work and the News of the Churches by Evangelical Alliance (1861)
"Another msu, who kept a shop, was converted, and his wife, servants, and shopboys,
all at the same time. But perhaps the most remarkable case was that of a ..."
3. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"You were simply a lot of shopboys, and even the best of you were nothing better
than penniless students. As for the workmen, they may well complain; for, ..."
4. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"I had no assistants except some little shopboys, among whom was one of great
beauty ; he was the son of a prostitute called La Gambetta. ..."
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