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  • noun Attributive form of clothes shop

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Examples

  • If Marilyn had been Botoxed, she would have been turned into precisely the clothes-shop dummy Murray and Thorndike thought she was.

    Johann Hari: Botox is Destroying Hollywood Acting 2009

  • 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

  • So her father took her to the clothes-shop and asked the shopkeeper to cut 75cm cloth for her.

    ruchiii Diary Entry ruchiii 2004

  • From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • From all this old clothes-shop his olive face stood out strangely young and monstrously sincere.

    The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

  • 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

  • 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.

    Indiscretions of Archie 1928

  • 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

  • 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 merchant’s style.

    Appendix. The Story of ‘Ala-ed-Din and the Wonderful Lamp: Paras. 1-24. 1909

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