Definition of "shoemaking" []

• The making of shoes. (noun)

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• "Janet he must have been familiar with the processes collectively called shoemaking; and therewith she recognized the word on the slate -- a sutor."
• "Women worked alongside men, supporting their families primarily through petty commerce, selling all kinds of produce in the marketplace, and also through artisan trades such as shoemaking and tailoring."
• "It would include therefore the multifarious trades (such as shoemaking) and activities productive of all kinds of goods and services, whereby people are able to obtain a reasonable living; it would include all activities ordered to exchange except those “business” activities directly aimed at increasing one's stock of money by buying and then re-selling the same things (MCM)."