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
Unfortunately, the amateur shopping at a seaside "gifte shoppe" is all too likely to wind up paying $50 for a $10 copy of a $500 original.
From Time Magazine Archive
London, Printed by Nicholas Okes, for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Paules Church-yard, at the Signe of the Crowne.
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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