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boutiquey en · ADJ

Etymology

From boutique + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Resembling or characteristic of a boutique (fashionable shop).
   • With Watt at sea two weeks out of four, studying part-time for his captain’s papers, and Dickie busy brewing “nice, boutiquey, hop-infused beers” in Derbyshire, the two school friends got together when they could. 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
   • Maybe some shoppers will look at the store and be turned off by the boutiquey feeling, and they won't wander inside. 2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the mall:
   • But I don't know anything about real estate and location and boutiquey shops out there. I don't go out there. 2007, Nora Roberts, High Noon:
   • In hip-hop terms this is chicken feed, but Mos Def isn’t Jay-Z, and the gig had a long profile within certain influential strata: a boutiquey show in New York’s most beautiful theater, preceded by weeks of positive chatter. 2007 January 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Rapper, Backed Up by Brass”, in New York Times:

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