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  • noun Plural form of shopkeeper.

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Examples

  • The dead were identified as a twelve-year-old boy, an Afghan police officer, and two shopkeepers from a local bazaar.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 21, 2010 2010

  • The arbiter of peace and war was fain to send superb ambassadors to kick their heels in Dutch shopkeepers’ ante-chambers. 8, is again a general term.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Sounds more as if the shopkeepers are the persecuted minority.

    Archive 2004-02-22 Laban 2004

  • Sounds more as if the shopkeepers are the persecuted minority.

    New Survey Washes Whiter Laban 2004

  • And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers, that is worth a good deal.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • The shopkeepers were the sons of Chanan or Jochanan; for, in the Jerusalem language, Chanan and

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • Like their wares, they were unusual, -- considered as shopkeepers, that is.

    The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story Mary F. Leonard

  • Over against the shopkeepers was the drop-curtain, the centre of which contained a romantic picture intended to prepare the spectators for the play soon to begin.

    A Mummer's Wife 1892

  • The shopkeepers are a tribe of more varied interests and more diversified lives.

    Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

  • The battle could not have been fought forty years ago, because, on one side, the Church was an idle phantasm, the gentleman too ignorant, the workman too merely animal; while, on the other, the Manchester cotton-spinners were all Tories, and the shopkeepers were a distinct class interest from theirs.

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

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