shopletn.
/ˈʃɒplᵻt/, U.S. /ˈʃɑplət/ A little shop.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop
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1872 S. Butler Erewhon vii. 54 Even on this ledge of human society there was a stunted growth of shoplets.
1905 Critic (N.Y.) Aug. 108/1 ‘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.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 7 June The inspiration for Norma-Jean's.., a white-fronted shoplet with a shocking pink interior, is Ms Monroe herself.
2001 Asian Business Apr. 46/1 This mid-city Bangkok plaza has hundreds of shoplets selling all the essential equipment of middle-class teenage life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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