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shoppe en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A fanciful spelling of shop, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness.
    • [T]hey ate delicious food in a delightful dining-room that looked like a Cornish tea shoppe, with vases of flowers and fascinating wildlife pictures all over the walls. 1983, Bill Oddie, Gone Birding, London: Methuen, page 110:
    • “Let's go to The Sweet Shoppe—a place you will get to know very well—grab dessert, then go back to our room. We can talk boys, compare class schedules, and maybe do some unpacking and decorating?” 2012, Jessica Burkhart, Initiation, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 37:
    • It's called “Ye Olde Grog Shoppe”, but really it's the new liquor shop and it opened just last month.

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shoppes Number=Plur lexicographic