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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop for the sale of aromatic substances; formerly, a grocery or an apothecary's shop.
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As arsenic, corrosive sublimate, and other poisons are sold freely to children in every spice-shop, the number of unaccounted-for deaths is extremely large, but inquiry is seldom or never made.
Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond Budgett Meakin 1886
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