jeweller's shopjeweler's shopn.
/ˈdʒuː(ə)ləz ʃɒp/, U.S. /ˈdʒu(ə)lərz ˌʃɑp/ 1. The shop or workshop of a jeweller.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling other specific goods
jeweller's shop1632
ironmongery1648
ironmonger1673
jeweller1675
news shop1688
print shop1689
Indian house1692
coal shed1718
pamphlet shop1721
lormery1725
drugstore1771
hardware store1777
junk store1777
chandler-shop1782
junk shop1790
music store1794
pot shop1794
finding store1822
marine store1837
picture house1838
paint shop1847
news agency1852
chemist1856
Army and Navy1878
cyclery1886
jumble-shop1893
pig shop1896
Manchester department1905
lot1909
craft shop1911
garden centre1912
pet shop1927
sex shop1949
video store1949
quincaillerie1951
home centre1955
Army-Navy1965
cookshop1967
sound shop1972
bucket-shop1973
1632 T. Randolph Jealous Lovers ii. ii. 19 My closet, By some that knew me not for Cupids favourite, Has been mistaken for a Jewellers shop.
1721 Polit. Fables xviii. 27 A Pearl Necklace, that she had seen in a Jeweller's Shop.
1867 E. Eiloart Curate's Discipline III. vi. 84 Philip was surveying the rings in the jeweller's shop, not as a purchaser, but as a possible vendor.
1999 Independent 27 Dec. ii. 6/2 A pair of masked men burst into a jeweller's shop on Main Street.
2. Mining (Australian and New Zealand). (A name for) a rich deposit of gold or opal.
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1853 Freeman's Jrnl. (Sydney) 17 Sept. 4/3 The ‘Jeweller's Shops’, as the newly discovered strata of gold at Ballarat are called, are described as being of surprising richness.
1948 E. F. Murphy They struck Opal! 102 I benched a hole down 20 feet—without knowing that the 26 foot level was a jeweller's shop.
2008 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 20 May (Travel section) m23 We sift through discarded mullock in an area known as the ‘jeweller's shop’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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