bootmaker

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British bootmaker Dr Martens Plc issued a profit warning on Thursday, citing significant operational issues at its new distribution centre in the United States that sent its shares plunging by more than a fifth.

From Reuters • Jan. 19, 2023

The house - a bootmaker since 1895 - branched out into clothes last year under the watchful eye of LVMH-owner Bernard Arnault’s powerful son, Antoine, who is CEO.

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2015

“All of us are trapped by the modern-day notion that if you’re a bootmaker that’s all you do,” he said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 23, 2014

Born in 1833 to a local bootmaker who helped found St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in New Haven, he sat for the entrance examination and was admitted in 1853.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2014

Tom didn't know where he had gone, and his landlady didn't know; and stranger still, his bootmaker and tailor, to whom he was considerably in arrears, didn't know either.

From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by Fleming, May Agnes