Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small retail shop that specializes in gifts, fashionable clothes, accessories, or food, for example.
- n. A small shop located within a large department store or supermarket.
- n. A small business offering specialized products and services: an investment boutique; a health-care boutique.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shop or place where goods are sold at retail.
Wiktionary
- adj. Specialized in bespoke or custom-made products for clientele in a niche market.
- n. A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
- n. A small shop located within a larger one.
- n. A film production company making only a few movies per year.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry
Etymologies
- From French boutique. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French botique, small shop, from Old Provençal botica, from Latin apothēca, storehouse; see apothecary. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“You both drank Bud, Miller, Schlitz or Pabst, and the phrase "boutique beer" never crossed your lips.”
“Where the term boutique historically cried out independent, now the brands are in there,”
“Located in historic Fabric Row, the boutique is a gem of a find.”
“BankLA no longer engaged in what he called boutique cash loans to the movie industry.”
“What we have to look at in Illinois specifically is an EPA that has designed what we call boutique formulas for gasoline, 11 of them in the Midwest alone, where you can't move that gasoline, that you can't produce it, refine it, and it's very problematic.”
“Organisers of the Serenata Festival - Britain's first dedicated outdoor classical music festival - claim it will be the ultimate in what they call boutique camping and the most civilised festival imaginable.”
“Some of the brand names, like Gallup and like Zogby, actually have average to slightly below average track records, whereas some what I call boutique polling firms, like SurveyUSA, which is out in New Jersey, like Rasmussen, all they do is polling, those firms actually do quite well.”
“The word boutique used in a derogatory sense is a misnomer, it’s a joke, and it’s wrong.”
Simon & Schuster: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor
“Cobble Hill's Bird boutique is hosting its third annual Jennifer Markins 'closet sale.”
The Huffington Post: Sample Sales & Shopping Events This Week in New York City
“The boutique is among a number of establishments that have complained that Victoria does not take an active enough role in promoting her designs.”
Victoria Beckham Kitson Boutique: “Stop Sending DVB Merchandise!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘boutique’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Monty Python words
inquisition, spanish, spam, parrot, silly, walking, yes it is, no it isn't, argument, clinic, ping!, sperm and 49 more...
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Favorites
disparage, partisan, cupidity, hokum, tussle, odious, dastardly, overture, plane, chronic, peering, peer and 328 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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French words in German language
words and phrases with french background commonly used in the german language, so-called "Gallizismen"
trottoir, paravent, rayon, perron, fauteuil, garage, arrangement, etablissement, portemonnaie, parterre, coupé, voliere and 123 more...
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worddom
put words in their place
theca, wisdom, kingdom, freedom, boredom, seldom, martyrdom, abdomen, doom, samhita, duma, dumka and 151 more...
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OM3 Lesson 21
boutique, vest, purple, style, burgundy, olive, olive green, cotton, fabric, although, pure, smooth and 16 more...
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Ends With "Que"
plaque, appliqué, bisque, communiqué, grotesque, marque, monocoque, odalisque, baroque, brusque, dantesque, critique and 46 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for boutique.
qroqqa A law firm concentrating on a narrow compass of specialisms is called a boutique. Mar 9, 2009
oroboros I've always been impressed with Joni's "between the forceps and the stone" line (Hejira--see complete lyrics on my Tunie list of that name). Oct 17, 2007
seanahan Oh yeah, I forgot about that verse. Oct 17, 2007
npydyuan They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot Oct 17, 2007
seanahan I get the song, but I don't get the connection. Oct 17, 2007
npydyuan Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got til it's gone? Oct 17, 2007