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- noun Attributive form of
clothes shop
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Examples
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If Marilyn had been Botoxed, she would have been turned into precisely the clothes-shop dummy Murray and Thorndike thought she was.
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Then I went to the clothes-shop with one of my acquaintainces who wanted to change the dress she had earlier purchased.
ruchiii Diary Entry ruchiii 2004
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So her father took her to the clothes-shop and asked the shopkeeper to cut 75cm cloth for her.
ruchiii Diary Entry ruchiii 2004
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From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.
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From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.
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From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.
The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003
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Of course the coat was not a very good fit, and the shoes were too large: but Bob had picked up the two at an old clothes-shop for two shillings, and they were the best he could do.
Willie the Waif Minie Herbert
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The jeweller counted the notes with the same unction which Archie had observed earlier in the day in the proprietor of the second-hand clothes-shop.
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From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.
The Innocence of Father Brown: The Sins of Prince Saradine Gilbert Keith 1911
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So Ala-ed-Din came forth to him and wished him good-day, and kissed his hand; and the Moor took him by the hand and went with him to the market, and entered a clothes-shop of all sorts of stuffs, and demanded a sumptuous suit of merchants style.
Appendix. The Story of Ala-ed-Din and the Wonderful Lamp: Paras. 1-24. 1909
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