shoppe
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shoppe
Deliberately archaized spelling
Example Sentences
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But as we celebrated her monumental birthday, I learned that her happiness came in the form of an apple pizza, prepared only a block away by a red-brick home-turned-"specialty shoppe" called Country Style.
From Salon • Nov. 5, 2022
The picture — dispatched to the world by a fed up German diplomat inside the Canadian china shoppe — is marvelous for so many reasons.
From Washington Times • Jun. 10, 2018
You can hardly hurl a beret in the timeworn narrow streets of the Vieux Nice neighborhood without hitting some olde shoppe stuffed with lavender soaps, chintz-print tablecloths and other ubiquitous Provençal products.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2014
But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe.
From Time Magazine Archive
At London, Printed for Iohn Smethwicke, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Saint Dunstons Church yeard in Fleetstreet.
From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.
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