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sweet-shop

[sweet-shop]

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noun British.

a store that sells candy.

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Origin of sweet-shop

First recorded in 1875–80

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

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Historical Examples of sweet-shop

But little Publius knew a sweet-shop, and a trick worth two of that.
The Forsyte Saga, Complete
John Galsworthy
The proprietor of the sweet-shop, however, was not sensitive.
Just William
Richmal Crompton
I see a schoolboy, when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.
The Trembling of the Veil
William Butler Yeats
The man in the sweet-shop told him his only chance of getting a paper was at the railway station.
The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's
Talbot Baines Reed
She seemed to find nothing odd in the fact of a small boy being in charge of a sweet-shop.
Just William
Richmal Crompton