shoplet

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shoplet (plural shoplets)

  1. (rare) A small shop.
    • 1897, Margaret Barker Wright, Hired Furnished, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 383–384:
      [] that shoplet so obscurely placed amid other dark-browed houses []
    • 1905 August, “The Lounger”, in The Critic and Literary World, volume XLVII, number 2, page 108:
      ""At the Sign of the Jack-o'-Lantern" sounds like the name of a Hallowe'en comedietta, or perhaps of an arts-and-crafts shoplet []
    • 1924, Alice Van Leer Carrick, Collector's Luck in France, Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, page 92:
      [] to me it was encouragingly romantic to be recommended to a remailleuse [] whose shoplet was "en face de la Tour de Charlemagne, Madame."
    • 1945, A.M. Apelbom et al., editors, Law of Landlord and Tenant in Palestine, Tel-Aviv: S. Bursi, page 137:
      [] so long as he left 1 m 20 between the shoplet and his premises he has complied with the scheme's provisions.

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