sweet-shop
a store that sells candy.
Origin of sweet-shop
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How to use sweet-shop in a sentence
Was your mother working at that time other than managing or operating this little notions and sweet shop?
Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyMore useful, and the fruit of an even grander tree, are those ‘Brazil nuts’ which are sold in every sweet-shop at home.
At Last | Charles KingsleyShe was to feel henceforth as if she were flattening her nose upon the hard window-pane of the sweet-shop of knowledge.
What Maisie Knew | Henry JamesAt tea-time we go to "François's" or to some other little sweet-shop, in order to get warm.
Trapped in 'Black Russia' | Ruth PierceThe proprietor of the sweet-shop, however, was not sensitive.
Just William | Richmal Crompton
British Dictionary definitions for sweet shop
mainly British a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
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