sweet-shop

[ sweet-shop ]
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nounBritish.
  1. a store that sells candy.

Origin of sweet-shop

1
First recorded in 1875–80

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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 Kennedy
  • More 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 Kingsley
  • She 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 James
  • At tea-time we go to "François's" or to some other little sweet-shop, in order to get warm.

  • The proprietor of the sweet-shop, however, was not sensitive.

    Just William | Richmal Crompton

British Dictionary definitions for sweet shop

sweet shop

noun
  1. mainly British a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets

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