pet-shop

A form of pet shop — A shop that sells animals kept as domestic pets, and products for caring for and feeding them.

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Meanings

nounpet-shop (plural pet-shops)

plural pet-shops

  1. alternativeAlternative form of pet shop.

    […] Mr. Wilham's fashionable West End pet-shop, where dogs lived in excelsior-floored cubicles, appealing to the passers-by.

    1932, Rudyard Kipling, “The Woman in His Life”, in Limits and Renewals, Dominions edition, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, page 47
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