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单词 capelocracy
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capelocracyn.

Etymology: < Greek κάπηλος shop-keeper + -κρατία rule.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: capeˈlocracy.
The shopkeeping ‘interest’ or class.
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1841 E. Bulwer-Lytton Night & Morning (1851) 236 A milliner's house (shop, to outward appearance, it was not), evincing..its degree above the Capelocracy, to use a certain classical neologism, by a brass plate.
1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel IV. xii. xxv. 166 The triumph of the Capelocracy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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