Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of shop.
Wiktionary
- n. A fanciful spelling of term, chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness.
Examples
“I called the shoppe and found out it is $550 and they will ship it to you!”
“Strolled past Monte Leone's pastry shop or, as they say, "shoppe" and discovered a few new wrinkles in the second coming of Cammerari's bakery.”
“Mmm. Then followed up with a miscellaneous vanilla rooibos loose leaf blend from my local tea shoppe, which is lovely, but I can’t distinguish it from Good Hope Vanilla.”
“Diligent shoppers who seek out the "shoppe" are offered a veritable cornucopia of rock, stone and gravel-related gift items.”
“while I'm not a big fan of "shoppe", "olde", and the like, I believe the spelling of "magicK" goes back to or at least was attributed to Aleister Crowley.”
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“Copper Kettles is a boutique shoppe specializing in unique gifts and essentials for the kitchen.”
“I mostly window shoppe, but always stop at Furst Condiserie for chocolate and visit the tiny Kaslochl Kaserei near the river just down from the Mozart Geburtzhaus.”
“I have rarely, if ever, seen LI wines "pushed" at the local shoppe.”
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“I was soooo excited about the schwarma shoppe opening up in WF … what a colossal disappointment!”
“The difference, primarily of interest to marketers, is approximately the same as between shop and shoppe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘shoppe’.
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Old
Old words or old spellings, or both.
fasickle, olde, goode, shoppe, towne, fantastick, poltroonery, strumpet, ear-rent, frog and toad, forgetfory, makar
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Colours
weird Brittish words
colour, towne, shoppe, traveller, aluminium, favourite, metre, programme, accountancy
bluecheesebabe i picture a cute little store in france. Sep 5, 2008