boutiquey

comparative more boutiquey · superlative most boutiquey

1. informalResembling or characteristic of a boutique (fashionable shop).

   But I don't know anything about real estate and location and boutiquey shops out there. I don't go out there.

   2007, Nora Roberts, High Noon

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   Maybe some shoppers will look at the store and be turned off by the boutiquey feeling, and they won't wander inside.

   2004, Paco Underhill, Call of the mall

   In hip-hop terms this is chicken feed, but Mos Def isn’t Jay-Z, and the gig had a long profile within certain influential strata: a boutiquey show in New York’s most beautiful theater, preceded by weeks of positive chatter.

   2007 January 19, Ben Ratliff, “A Rapper, Backed Up by Brass”, in New York Times

   With Watt at sea two weeks out of four, studying part-time for his captain’s papers, and Dickie busy brewing “nice, boutiquey, hop-infused beers” in Derbyshire, the two school friends got together when they could.

   2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN