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View synonyms for sweet-shop

sweet-shop

[ sweet-shop ]

noun

, British.
  1. a store that sells candy.


sweet shop

noun

  1. a shop solely or largely selling sweets, esp boiled sweets
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sweet-shop1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

Was your mother working at that time other than managing or operating this little notions and sweet shop?

More useful, and the fruit of an even grander tree, are those ‘Brazil nuts’ which are sold in every sweet-shop at home.

She was to feel henceforth as if she were flattening her nose upon the hard window-pane of the sweet-shop of knowledge.

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.

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