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At the corner of the Square--just out of the Square so that it might not shame its grandeur--was a fruit and flower shop, and this shop was the entrance to a street that had much life and bustle about it.

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  1. noun A small retail store or a specialty department in a large store.
  2. noun An atelier; a studio.
  3. noun A place for manufacturing or repairing goods or machinery.
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  • Coming up with a name for the shop has been the hardest part!
  • I always think the shop is a little - ahmm-cheesey, but they always, always have something very interesting. —  ***abbytryagain***
  • The survival of the shop has been a growing concern with the planned retirement of Mr and Mrs Gray. —  HX News and Sport
  • At the back of the shop is a balcony, and from the balcony is the most amazing sight. —  THE VIEW FROM FEZ
  • Items I make that I decide not to put into my shop will be added to this growing collection. —  Fashion World of SL
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English shoppe, from Old English sceoppa, treasure house.

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  1. from Middle English shoppe, schoppe, ssoppe, shope (later Middle Latin shoppa), from Anglo-Saxon sceoppa, a stall or booth (used to translate Late Latin gazophylacium, a treasury), =Middle Dutch schop =Low German schuppe, schoppe, schup, a shed, =Old High German scopf, scof, Middle High German schopf (later Old French eschoppe, eschope, French échoppe), a booth, German dial. schopf, a building without walls, a vestibule; cf. German schoppen, schuppen (from Middle Dutch Low German), a shed, covert, cart-house. Hence ult. shippen, q. v.
  2. from shop, n.
 

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