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- noun Plural form of
sweetshop .
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Examples
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It was a shabby but busy area dotted with fruit stands, sweetshops and taverns that encircled the square.
THE PROMISED WAR Thomas Greanias 2010
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Coffee houses, falafel stands, traditional sweetshops and the local market are all working at full speed.
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What about, something roderick does not mention, the fact that wallmart obtain many of the goods it sells by cheap chinese labor, sweetshops, that exist thanks to systemic goverment cohertion against workers?
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Christmas sweetshops -- white at the base and shading from pale salmon to the deepest of pinks.
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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Yiddish were in all the little grimy shop windows, in the bakers and the sweetshops and the laundries.
Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912
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The grand canal that once gleamed along the length of Chandni Chowk has long been covered by concrete to accommodate some of the city's most cacophonous traffic, lined on either side by everything from centuries-old sweetshops to a beef-free branch of McDonald's.
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The grand canal that once gleamed along the length of Chandni Chowk has long been covered by concrete to accommodate some of the city's most cacophonous traffic, lined on either side by everything from centuries-old sweetshops to a beef-free branch of McDonald's.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Coffee houses, falafel stands, traditional sweetshops and the local market are all working at full speed.
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Now, Berlin is brimming with sweetshops but I fear no-one gets to go behind the curtain.
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Berlin is brimming with sweetshops but I fear no-one gets to go behind the curtain
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