Meanings
plural shoplets
- rareA small shop.
[…] that shoplet so obscurely placed amid other dark-browed houses […]
1897, Margaret Barker Wright, Hired Furnished, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 383–3843 more examples
""At the Sign of the Jack-o'-Lantern" sounds like the name of a Hallowe'en comedietta, or perhaps of an arts-and-crafts shoplet […]
1905 August 29, “The Lounger”, in The Critic and Literary World, volume XLVII, number 2, page 108[…] to me it was encouragingly romantic to be recommended to a remailleuse […] whose shoplet was "en face de la Tour de Charlemagne, Madame."
1924, Alice Van Leer Carrick, Collector's Luck in France, Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, page 92[…] so long as he left 1 m 20 between the shoplet and his premises he has complied with the scheme's provisions.
1945, A.M. Apelbom et al., editors, Law of Landlord and Tenant in Palestine, Tel-Aviv: S. Bursi, page 137
Origin
- Proto-Germanic*skup-
- Old Englishscoppa
- Middle Englishschoppe
- Englishshop
- Englishshoplet
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
shoplet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoplet
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