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  • noun Plural form of sweetshop.

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Examples

  • It was a shabby but busy area dotted with fruit stands, sweetshops and taverns that encircled the square.

    THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010

  • Coffee houses, falafel stands, traditional sweetshops and the local market are all working at full speed.

    The Holy Land is on a tourism high 2010

  • What about, something roderick does not mention, the fact that wallmart obtain many of the goods it sells by cheap chinese labor, sweetshops, that exist thanks to systemic goverment cohertion against workers?

    The ALLied invasion of Cato 2008

  • Christmas sweetshops -- white at the base and shading from pale salmon to the deepest of pinks.

    Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919

  • Yiddish were in all the little grimy shop windows, in the bakers and the sweetshops and the laundries.

    Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

  • The grand canal that once gleamed along the length of Chandni Chowk has long been covered by concrete to accommodate some of the city's most cacophonous traffic, lined on either side by everything from centuries-old sweetshops to a beef-free branch of McDonald's.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • The grand canal that once gleamed along the length of Chandni Chowk has long been covered by concrete to accommodate some of the city's most cacophonous traffic, lined on either side by everything from centuries-old sweetshops to a beef-free branch of McDonald's.

    Reuters: Top News 2010

  • Coffee houses, falafel stands, traditional sweetshops and the local market are all working at full speed.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Now, Berlin is brimming with sweetshops but I fear no-one gets to go behind the curtain.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

  • Berlin is brimming with sweetshops but I fear no-one gets to go behind the curtain

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2010

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