icecream shop

plural icecream shops

1. alternativeAlternative form of ice cream shop.

   “Let’s see if we can find an icecream shop open,” Jasmine suggested, preparing to sweep Samantha away.

   1975, Doris E[dna] Smith, Cotswold Honey, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 96

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   Despite the tourists and the icecream shops, the town is an interesting one with plenty of fine old half-timbered houses, delightful gardens and, of course, the River Avon.

   1986, John Whatmore, The CTC Book of Cycle-Touring, Grafton Books, →ISBN, page 145

   Many icecream shops now sell soft-serve yoghurts, icecreams and ice-desserts that are high in carbos and low in fat.

   1995, Louise Burke, The Complete Guide to Food for Sports Performance: A Guide to Peak Nutrition for Your Sport, 2nd edition, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 24

   Similarly Andy went everyplace, or everyplace that was anyplace – or not even. He goes to the opening of an escalator at Bergdorf Goodman, to Regine’s for Julio Iglesias’s birthday, to an icecream-shop unveiling in Palm Beach, to Tavern on the Green for a ‘thing’ (this is a word that Andy has a lot of time for) to announce that Don King is taking over the management of the Jacksons, to the Waldorf-Astoria for the Barbie Doll bash, someplace else to judge a Madonna-lookalike playoff and someplace else to judge a naked-breast contest.

   2001, Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000, New York, N.Y.: Talk Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 41

   The best I could do was force myself to place a slice of bread in the toaster and then reluctantly nibble on the crust. Except sometimes when it burnt I would burst into tears and fall to the ground in hysterics, much the same as a two-year-old does in an icecream shop if the rainbow-coloured bubblegum-flavoured double cone they had their heart set on is forbidden.

   2007, Tessa Wigney, Kerrie Eyers, Gordon Parker, editors, Journeys with the Black Dog: Inspirational Stories of Bringing Depression to Heel, Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, pages 71–72