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shoplet en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈʃɑplət/ (US)
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• /ˈʃɒplət/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *skup- Old English scoppa Middle English schoppe English shop Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English shoplet From shop + -let.

Meanings

1. (rare) A small shop.
   • […] to me it was encouragingly romantic to be recommended to a remailleuse […] whose shoplet was "en face de la Tour de Charlemagne, Madame." 1924, Alice Van Leer Carrick, Collector's Luck in France, Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, page 92:
   • ""At the Sign of the Jack-o'-Lantern" sounds like the name of a Hallowe'en comedietta, or perhaps of an arts-and-crafts shoplet […] 1905 August 14, “The Lounger”, in The Critic and Literary World, volume XLVII, number 2, page 108:
   • […] that shoplet so obscurely placed amid other dark-browed houses […] 1897, Margaret Barker Wright, Hired Furnished, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 383–384:
   • […] so long as he left 1 m 20 between the shoplet and his premises he has complied with the scheme's provisions. 1945, A.M. Apelbom et al., editors, Law of Landlord and Tenant in Palestine, Tel-Aviv: S. Bursi, page 137:

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