Definitions
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- noun the
side of ashop which faces thestreet ; usually containsdisplay windows
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the front side of a store facing the street; usually contains display windows
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Examples
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Villages became huts with the occasional 'shopfront' or bar.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2010
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The listed shopfront, with its soaring pediment and old-fashioned windows, gives on to a long, spacious area with modern fittings and a broad range of reading material.
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Both sites are content sites and therefore, we are spared the issues involved with maintaining a shopfront and dealing with payment gateways, etc.
Danny Wong: Diving Into the Technology Behind Content Creation Danny Wong 2011
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Helter Skelter, Murder One and several other specialists lost their shopfront presence and made way for more coffee retailers.
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On Willesden High Road, the Architecture Association has recruited an advent calendar's worth of local shops and teamed them up with fashionable design studios, opening a revamped shopfront every day of December.
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The understated white-painted shopfront on Candlemaker Row belies the bold, enthralling worlds that lie behind it.
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The iPad's iBooks store was expected to be an excellent shopfront for ebooks, but sales have been slower than publishers expected, with Amazon's Kindle instead winning more acceptance – and attention – from readers.
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Despite the Cotswold stone, Dickensian shopfront and flagstone floors, the books spilling out from every corner will bring you right back to the present.
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Through a tiny white shopfront you enter an invitingly cluttered interior containing thousands of books flying off in every direction.
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As the city's temporary façade, the big shopfront windows are also reflective of its mood.
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