shoppe
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shoppe
Deliberately archaized spelling
Example Sentences
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But as we celebrated her monumental birthday, I learned that her happiness came in the form of an apple pizza, prepared only a block away by a red-brick home-turned-"specialty shoppe" called Country Style.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022
The picture — dispatched to the world by a fed up German diplomat inside the Canadian china shoppe — is marvelous for so many reasons.
From Washington Times • Jun. 10, 2018
You can hardly hurl a beret in the timeworn narrow streets of the Vieux Nice neighborhood without hitting some olde shoppe stuffed with lavender soaps, chintz-print tablecloths and other ubiquitous Provençal products.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2014
With the ineptitude of a musical comedy without music, the scene shifts quickly to a Manhattan dress shoppe, to a Westchester Country club, to "the Conquistador Hotel in Baja California," which means Lower California.
From Time Magazine Archive
Imprinted at London, for Thomas Fisher, and are to be soulde at his shoppe, at the Signe of the White Hart, in Fleetestreete.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
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