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Definition of Sweetshops
1. sweetshop [n] - See also: sweetshop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweetshops
Literary usage of Sweetshops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fleshly School of Poetry, and Other Phenomena of the Day by Robert Williams Buchanan (1872)
"It has penetrated into the very sweetshops; and there, among the commoner sorts
of confectionery, may bo seen this year models of the female Leg, ..."
2. Among English Hedgerows by Clifton Johnson (1899)
"There were fish booths, meat booths, sweetshops, and restaurants, and many displays
of crockery, dry-goods, and hardware. You could even buy a gay-colored ..."
3. The Universities and the Social Problem: An Account of the University by Arthur Feley Wilmington-Ingram, John Eldon Gorst (1895)
"A committee of investigation, sent down by the State Government to inspect
sweetshops and decide on the necessity for legislation, was piloted by her on its ..."
4. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"GEORGE DU MAURIER, Trilby Modesty died when clothes were born. ,, ~p [Sensualism]
has penetrated into the very sweetshops; and there among the commoner ..."
5. Miss Amerikanka: A Story by Olive Gilbreath (1918)
"... with packages from the sweetshops and jostles—no, the crowd does not jostle
as in America. Russia is of the East. "Christmas is not the festa in Russia ..."
6. The Fleshly School of Poetry, and Other Phenomena of the Day by Robert Williams Buchanan (1872)
"It has penetrated into the very sweetshops; and there, among the commoner sorts
of confectionery, may bo seen this year models of the female Leg, ..."
7. Among English Hedgerows by Clifton Johnson (1899)
"There were fish booths, meat booths, sweetshops, and restaurants, and many displays
of crockery, dry-goods, and hardware. You could even buy a gay-colored ..."
8. The Universities and the Social Problem: An Account of the University by Arthur Feley Wilmington-Ingram, John Eldon Gorst (1895)
"A committee of investigation, sent down by the State Government to inspect
sweetshops and decide on the necessity for legislation, was piloted by her on its ..."
9. The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany by Colin Bingham (2006)
"GEORGE DU MAURIER, Trilby Modesty died when clothes were born. ,, ~p [Sensualism]
has penetrated into the very sweetshops; and there among the commoner ..."
10. Miss Amerikanka: A Story by Olive Gilbreath (1918)
"... with packages from the sweetshops and jostles—no, the crowd does not jostle
as in America. Russia is of the East. "Christmas is not the festa in Russia ..."
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