Definition of "shop-walker" []

• A retail store floor supervisor. (noun)

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• "Then a puffy little shop-walker would have come into view, looked at the bill for a second, very hard (showing you a parting down the middle of his head meanwhile), have scribbled a still more flourishing J.M. all over the document, have asked you if there was nothing more, have stood by you — supposing that you were paying cash — until the central figure of this story reappeared with the change."
• "One glance more at him, and the puffy little shop-walker would have been bowing you out, with fountains of civilities at work all about you."
• "For it seemed that the place they were in was a vast shop, and then Mr. Hoopdriver perceived that the other man in brown was the shop-walker, differing from most shop-walkers in the fact that he was lit from within as a Chinese lantern might be."