1684 New Song in Praise Loyal Company of Stationers (single sheet) Quoth John you may shut up your Shopping, Your Charter was all your Shield, For every Sea-man of Wapping, May be Freeman now of the Guield.

1761 Public Ledger 14 Aug. 776/2 (advt.) To be sold... Two Freehold Houses, with Shopping, in Bull-street, Birmingham.

1848 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 June (advt.) Steam power to be let.., with Shopping and Warehouse attached, if required.

1872 Engineer 6 Sept. 161/2 For engineering purposes and similar work the shopping [at the Worcester Engine Works] is admirably well suited.

1904 Leamington Spa Courier 30 Sept. 1/3 (advt.) Locke & Son will sell by auction..Newbold Wharf, comprising 4,500 square yards or thereabouts with Stabling for 7 Horses, Shopping, and Cottage.

1946 Financial Times 5 Dec. 6/4 (advt.) Arthur Tipper Ltd., 95, 96, 97, 98, Newhall Street [in Birmingham], and Shopping at rear.

1757 Protestant's Addr. 38 For what with the necessary Business of Dress, Shopping, Visits to be received and paid.

1760 J.-M. Leprince de Beaumont Young Ladies Mag. 3 xxv. 142 She is gone a shopping with a lady of her acquaintance.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xii. 101 That delightful round of visits and shopping which forms the amusement, or the profession as you may call it, of the rich London lady.

1872 W. D. Howells Their Wedding Journey x. 279 They also had done a little shopping.

1954 Evening Independent (Massillon, Ohio) 31 Mar. 32/3 Beautiful fluorescent Safe-lighting have been combined to make your shopping as pleasant as possible.

2003 E. Noble Reading Group 112 The shopping had to be done trolley-dash style, in fifteen minutes.

1767 London Mag. Feb. 89/1 Let us have the length of all the rein; In shoppings, auctions, jauntings, or quadrille, Leave us to spend, and lose whate'er we will.

?1782 C. A. Burney Jrnl. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 300 They spent at one shopping £20 in Gauzes two or three years ago!

1876 C. Schreiber Jrnl. (1911) I. 477 We found that we could not execute all our little shoppings.., because the Saturday is but a half-day.

1934 Punch 2 May 489/1 Would you think me the most terrific pest if I asked you to do yet another shopping for me?

1980 M. Forster Bride of Lowther Fell xviii. 272 I could perhaps go to Wigton and do a mammoth shopping.

1990 J. Updike Rabbit at Rest i. 41 I meant to do a big shopping yesterday for you and Nelson but the tennis game I was in went to the third set.

1907 Courier-Crescent (Orrville, Ohio) 25 Oct. 7/4 She..managed the bike with one hand and carried her basket of shopping in the other.

1934 Punch 2 May 489/1 Thank you so much, darling, for those marvellous Shoppings... The pyjamas are divine.

1948 ‘P. Wentworth’ Traveller Returns i. 6 A very stout woman with a basket full of shopping.

1975 Oxf. Consumer June 4 There are those, i.e. the elderly, the infirm, people with shopping,..for whom cycling is not always possible.

2013 C. Tsiolkas Barracuda (2014) 366 Two bags of shopping were on the bench.

1975 N.Y. Times 26 Feb. 34 Some of them were New York's ‘shopping bag ladies’, and they had passed the night sleeping in subway entrances.

1979 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. B 7 An elderly ‘shopping bag lady’,..one of the legion of homeless, independent, often eccentric women who live on the city's streets.

2004 Real Philly Summer 66/3 Her campaign in the mid-1980s to take mentaly ill ‘shopping bag ladies’ off the sidewalks and house them.

1939 Tunkhannock (Pa.) Republican 4 May 4/5 Shopping carriages on wheels are provided for the customer, so that purchases may be conveniently stowed on the carriages until buying is completed.

2004 Telegram & Gaz. (Worcester, Mass.) 1 Oct. b6 [She] pointed to shopping carriages left alongside streets and in alleyways.

1968 Atlanta Constit. 2 Dec. 4/2 Through the medium of cable television, there soon will be shopping channels on your TV set.

1981 Variety 11 Feb. 47/3 The merchandising service, to be called the Shopping Channel, will be offered to..customers throughout the U.S.

2013 T. Perrotta Nine Inches 114 She's keeping busy. It's way better than sitting in the house all day, watching the shopping channel.

1837 Amer. Q. Rev. Mar. 236 There is also a fashionable shopping district.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Mar. 6/1 The London flower girl is a familiar figure..in popular shopping districts of the west.

1948 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press 9 July 3/6 (caption) Sheboygan's shopping district is a busy place indeed on Friday nights.

2011 J. R. Baker & S. J. Rivele Vice i. 6 The downtown shopping district was lined with trees.

1950 Racine (Wisconsin) Jrnl.-Times 6 Aug. 3/4 1,000,000 square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.

1951 May Dept. Stores Company Ann. Rep. 5 A shopping mall now under development on 154 acres.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts July 505/1 Shopping malls are the nearest thing to the market place which you could find in North America.

2010 Independent 11 May (Viewspaper section) 6/6 Why are we not voting in shopping malls, supermarkets, stations—places where people gather?

1890 Harper's Bazar May 378 (caption) Shopping net. For description see pattern-sheet.

1955 T. Sterling Evil of Day i. 1 Within the cabin, women with shopping nets and men with folded newspapers awaited their turns.

2006 E. Williams Last Berliner 11 All we had to do was collect our shopping nets which..were full of sandwiches and coffee.

1986 N.Y. Times 29 July (Business Day) 1/1 Crazy Eddie is planning a shopping network that will offer discount home entertainment merchandise via cable television and a toll-free telephone number.

1992 New Yorker 9 Mar. 63/1 On these channels—the shopping networks, the channels that devote half their day to infomercials—you are more and more encouraged to buy simply because the very act of buying will make you feel good.

2003 L. Emery Kiss Lonely Goodbye iv. 36 Most dot coms tanked when the new economy got old... I heard that on CNN once when I was channel surfing trying to find the shopping network.

1892 Washington Post 16 Oct. 10 Shopping precincts of the City.

1943 Manch. Guardian 10 July 4 In the shopping precinct Regent Street and Oxford Street both become local roads.

1947 Times 16 Sept. 2 The programme embraces the construction of..half the shopping precinct.

1980 A. Auswaks Trick of Diamonds iii. 75 At the end of the High Street stood a new shopping precinct.

2005 T. Aw Harmony Silk Factory iii. 283 I followed the others..into the new shopping precinct, a frightful collection of fluorescent-lit shops.

1905 Sunday Light (San Antonio, Texas) 30 Apr. 1/1 (advt.) Many ladies are taking advantage of our shopping service.

1925 Eaton's News Weekly 26 Sept. 18 When Ordering by Mail..Address Letter to Shopping Service.

1972 S. Ellin Mirror, Mirror 79 The lady happens to work for a shopping service... If you want to do some shopping for your wife..these people take you to the right places and pick the right stuff.

2002 Guardian 16 Dec. 23/4 A shopping service that will lead you directly to the product you're looking for.

1935 Steubenville (Ohio) Herald-Star 3 July 6/3 It is one of those pert boutiques along Madison avenue's ultra shopping strip.

1968 Park Forest (Illinois) Star 30 June a2/2 The new shopping strip..will contain 11 stores in 12,000 square feet of space.., plus parking for 100 cars.

1982 Canberra Times 9 Jan. 18/2 (advt.) Corner shop in busy shopping strip on Southside.

1990 Time 3 Sept. 63/1 [Ansel Adams's] vision of wilderness could stand for the imagined essence of a nation where shopping strips and tract housing hadn't seeped into every corner.

2013 I. Hoskins Coast x. 369 Hyams Beach..was just three hours from Sydney, surrounded by national park with no through roads and no shopping strip.

1970 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. 1970–71 Autumn–Winter 227 Leeway shopping tray provides secure storage space and is readily adaptable to most prams.

1977 Cornish Times 19 Aug. 7/3 (advt.) Silver Cross pram, detachable body..with shopping tray.

2002 Yorks. Post (Nexis) 9 Mar. Pram with big spoked wheels offers wonderful comfort..A shopping tray underneath will carry a large load safely.

1951 Irish Times 1 Dec. 4 The policeman taking down particulars of an accident to the shopping-trolleys pulled by two housewives.

1976 Economist 17 Apr. 79/3 A motorised pram-cum-shopping-trolley would arguably be the most egalitarian form of transport.

1978 Green Shield Stamp Catal. Feb. 113 Shopping trolley. Adjustable telescopic handle. Detachable shopping bag.

1980 Criminal Appeal Rep. (Sentencing) 1 255 On the morning of January 25, 1979 at Brent Cross Shopping Centre she went into a Waitrose Supermarket and loaded up a shopping trolley with groceries.

2001 J. Coe Rotters' Club (2002) 214 She stared out at the traffic, the queue at the bus stop, the dogged housewives walking by with their shopping trolleys.

1906 50th Ann. Rep. Board Managers Thomas Indian School Iroquois, N.Y. 50 Our nearest shopping village of any size is Gowanda, which is six miles distant.

1931 N.Y. Times 21 June 26/4 [In] exclusively residential Highland Park.., Texas..demand for a shopping centre was evident... The developers decided that a shopping village was the only solution... Ultimately it will include seventy-five shops, grouped around an inner rectangular court.., and parking facilities will be provided for 700 cars.

1953 San Antonio (Texas) Express 27 Sept. 6 b (caption) The spreading 61,431-square-foot McCreless Shopping Village..is slated to be formally opened..next Friday.

1973 Los Angeles Times 20 Dec. iv. 1/4 Monterey..a couple of miles down the coast. Beyond that, the quaint shopping village of Carmel.

2012 A. Hudson in G. Poynter et al. London after Recession iii. 53 At Bicester Shopping Village..they do their best to strip the shelves of designer goods.

1871 Evening Gaz. (Port Jervis, N.Y.) 28 Oct. (advt.) Anyone in this State Buying Alpacas of late Has found out by shopping around That the cheapest and nicest, And at lowest cash prices, Are retailed by Cunningham—up-town.

1919 Amer. Hatter Dec. 101/2 Today, ‘shopping around’ is more common than it was five years ago.

1976 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 Sept. 40/8 The practice used by some parents of shopping around for a championship team for their child.

1987 D. Rowe Beyond Fear xi. 384 Accepting yourself means..giving up shopping around for an alternative self.

2012 Independent 1 Aug. 15/5 Every enterprise likes to brag that you will never find a lower price, not least because it is commercially convenient for them if you don't bother shopping around.

1768 E. Lloyd Powers of Pen 38 She ask'd (as shopping Ladies do, That on a Morning's ramble go) Its price—not that she meant to buy, But just for Curiosity.

1811 Weekly Visitor 25 Mar. 314/2 Suppose there are two thousand shopping ladies, and..they frequent ten shops each..which amounts to twenty thousand visitors, whom the shop-keepers have to supply with words, if not goods.

1856 Harper's Mag. Jan. 268/2 An hour's discussion of the mode..reduces her Majesty once more to the pleasant level of a gossiping, shopping woman.

1953 Archit. Rev. 114 246 The shopping pedestrian, the morning coffee-taker,..certainly need protection from automobilism.

2000 Federation News Jan. 1/3 The charter..makes the shopping public aware of their entitlements in law.

2012 States News Service (Nexis) 3 May Houston police officers..took time out of their schedules..to..offer safety tips to shopping parents at Target.