单词 | to keep, tend store |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep, tend store a. Chiefly North American and elsewhere outside the U.K. In early use, a shop on a large scale, and dealing in a great variety of articles (see quot. 18082). Now, equivalent to the British use of shop n. 3. Also in to keep, tend store. The use of the word in this sense has not become common in the U.K. except in combinations, as chain store n. at chain n. Compounds 3, department store n. at department n. 5 (see under the first elements), store detective n. at Compounds 1d(a), in which it still refers to a large shop. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop shopc1390 seldc1450 cheap-house1606 bursea1661 swag1676 repository1725 store1731 warehouse1754 sale-shop1757 shoppie1773 emporium1803 mercantile1984 1731 Pennsylvania Gaz. 3 June 4/1 (advt.) Job Rawlinson, Removed..to his New open'd Store next to Dickinson's burnt Houses in Water-street; Giveth hereby Intelligence that he hath a fine fresh Choice there, of most kinds of Merchandize, which he will sell at very inviting Cheap Rates. 1752 Pennsylvania Gaz. 25 June 4/3 Where Mr. Samuel Burge kept store. 1757 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1889) I. 490 I..beg the favor of you to choose me..as much thread as is necessary in Mr. Lewis' Store, if he has them. If not, in Mr. Jackson's. 1772 Boston Gaz. 23 Nov. A person that can tend Store or wait on a private Gentleman. 1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 I. 40 It [Pittsburg] possesses upward of forty retail stores. 1808 T. Ashe Trav. Amer. 1806 I. 40 (note) The common name for the places of sale in America and the colonies; differing from shops in being generally larger, and always dealing in a vast variety of articles. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 124 A store is..nothing better than what we should call..at home a ‘general shop’. 1839 W. Wakefield in N.Z. Jrnl. (1840) No. 9. 112 It partly belongs to Captain Mayhew, an American, who has a store on it. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. 2 They told me that he kept store away down Pearl street. 1861 L. A. Meredith Over the Straits II. 41 Some tolerably good ‘stores’ (as we designate those colonial Shops-of-all-work). 1862 Times 1 Sept. 5/1 At one corner of the street was a little provision and drapery store kept by an old woman. a1872 in Schele De Vere Americanisms 641 He wanted to write up books, to tend store, or do anything to make an honest living. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 43 Here are two or three little grocery stores. 1880 Austral. Town & Country Jrnl. (Sydney) 14 Feb. 314/4 This great city (of the future) is yet unbuilt, except one public-house and a store, blacksmith's shop, and very small telegraph and post office. 1907 J. H. Patterson Man-eaters of Tsavo i. 11 [Mombasa] has several excellent stores where almost anything, from a needle to an anchor, may readily be obtained. 1956 H. G. de Lisser Cup & Lip ii. 22 The shops—or stores, as they are invariably called in the West Indies—were open. 1975 Encounter Jan. 41/2 But for chrissake—that's ‘Christ's sake’ in American, chaps—has anybody ever gone away from a shop—meaning ‘store’, youse guys—empty-handed through ignorance of some one of these local variants? < as lemmas |
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