booteryn.
/ˈbuːtəri/ U.S.
A shop where boots and shoes are sold.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling clothes, cloth, or accessories
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1920 N.Y. Times 25 Jan. [In San Francisco] You can buy your groceries in grocerterias..and your shoes in booteries.
1945 J. Steinbeck Cannery Row xi. 47 The final climax came with the front of Holman's bootery broken out and the party trying on shoes in the display window.
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