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

Word History and Origins

Origin of sweet-shop¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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At tea-time we go to "François's" or to some other little sweet-shop, in order to get warm.

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The proprietor of the sweet-shop, however, was not sensitive.

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