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Definition of Sweetshop
1. Noun. A shop selling confectionery; particularly but not necessarily one that sells predominantly confectionery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sweetshop
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweetshop
Literary usage of Sweetshop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Bullet. A sweet(meat). The usual term. A large sweetshop in a certain North-country
town is inscribed in large capitals —The Bullet King. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1878)
"... Christabel had fallen in with a tribe of ragged urchins, mothered by a little
woman of six, on their way to a sweetshop to spend a halfpenny, and, ..."
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