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icecream shop en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ice cream shop.
   alt of ice cream shop
   • Many icecream shops now sell soft-serve yoghurts, icecreams and ice-desserts that are high in carbos and low in fat. 1995, Louise Burke, The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance: A Guide to Peak Nutrition for Your Sport, 2nd edition, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 24:
   • “Let’s see if we can find an icecream shop open,” Jasmine suggested, preparing to sweep Samantha away. 1975, Doris E[dna] Smith, Cotswold Honey, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 96:
   • Similarly Andy went everyplace, or everyplace that was anyplace – or not even. He goes to the opening of an escalator at Bergdorf Goodman, to Regine’s for Julio Iglesias’s birthday, to an icecream-shop unveiling in Palm Beach, to Tavern on the Green for a ‘thing’ (this is a word that Andy has a lot of time for) to announce that Don King is taking over the management of the Jacksons, to the Waldorf-Astoria for the Barbie Doll bash, someplace else to judge a Madonna-lookalike playoff and someplace else to judge a naked-breast contest. 2001, Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000, New York, N.Y.: Talk Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 41:
   • The best I could do was force myself to place a slice of bread in the toaster and then reluctantly nibble on the crust. Except sometimes when it burnt I would burst into tears and fall to the ground in hysterics, much the same as a two-year-old does in an icecream shop if the rainbow-coloured bubblegum-flavoured double cone they had their heart set on is forbidden. 2007, Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, editors, Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of Bringing Depression to Heel, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, pages 71–72:
   • Despite the tourists and the icecream shops, the town is an interesting one with plenty of fine old half-timbered houses, delightful gardens and, of course, the River Avon. 1986, John Whatmore, The CTC Book of Cycle-Touring, Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 145:

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