antique shop

plural antique shops · alternative antiques shop

1. businessA business dedicated to storing, selling, restoring, and trading in items from previous eras for their superficial and historical value, especially furniture and trinkets.

   My grandmother Rosemary never cared much for antique shops, she preferred modern goods as opposed to the things of yore.

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   New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.

   1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 144

   Synonyms: antiques store, antique store