Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small retail shop that specializes in gifts, fashionable clothes, accessories, or food, for example.
- noun A small shop located within a large department store or supermarket.
- noun A small business offering specialized products and services.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shop or place where goods are sold at retail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Specialized in
bespoke orcustom-made products for clientele in aniche market . - noun A small
shop , especially one that sellsfashionable clothes ,jewelry and the like. - noun A small shop located within a larger one.
- noun A film production company making only a few movies per year.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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You both drank Bud, Miller, Schlitz or Pabst, and the phrase "boutique beer" never crossed your lips.
The New American Divide Charles Murray 2012
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"Where the term boutique historically cried out independent, now the brands are in there,"
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Tim McKeough 2009
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Located in historic Fabric Row, the boutique is a gem of a find.
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BankLA no longer engaged in what he called boutique cash loans to the movie industry.
Lost Light Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2003
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What we have to look at in Illinois specifically is an EPA that has designed what we call boutique formulas for gasoline, 11 of them in the Midwest alone, where you can't move that gasoline, that you can't produce it, refine it, and it's very problematic.
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Organisers of the Serenata Festival - Britain's first dedicated outdoor classical music festival - claim it will be the ultimate in what they call boutique camping and the most civilised festival imaginable.
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Organisers of the Serenata Festival - Britain's first dedicated outdoor classical music festival - claim it will be the ultimate in what they call boutique camping and the most civilised festival imaginable.
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Organisers of the Serenata Festival - Britain's first dedicated outdoor classical music festival - claim it will be the ultimate in what they call boutique camping and the most civilised festival imaginable.
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Organisers of the Serenata Festival - Britain's first dedicated outdoor classical music festival - claim it will be the ultimate in what they call boutique camping and the most civilised festival imaginable.
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Some of the brand names, like Gallup and like Zogby, actually have average to slightly below average track records, whereas some what I call boutique polling firms, like SurveyUSA, which is out in New Jersey, like Rasmussen, all they do is polling, those firms actually do quite well.
Democracy Now! 2008
npydyuan commented on the word boutique
Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got til it's gone?
October 17, 2007
seanahan commented on the word boutique
I get the song, but I don't get the connection.
October 17, 2007
npydyuan commented on the word boutique
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot
October 17, 2007
seanahan commented on the word boutique
Oh yeah, I forgot about that verse.
October 17, 2007
oroboros commented on the word boutique
I've always been impressed with Joni's "between the forceps and the stone" line (Hejira--see complete lyrics on my
October 17, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word boutique
A law firm concentrating on a narrow compass of specialisms is called a boutique.
March 9, 2009
bilby commented on the word boutique
Same root as bodega, so much for all your fancy connotations.
April 22, 2019