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
Still, her selection is always redolent of a narrow-aisled, copiously stocked gift shoppe.
From Time Magazine Archive
‘When ther any ridings were in Chepe, Out of the shoppe thider would he lepe; And till that he had all the sight ysein, And danced well, he would not come again.’
From John and Betty's History Visit by Williamson, Margaret
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