shoplet

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UK/ˈʃɒplət/US/ˈʃɑplət/

noun

A small shop.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

nounshoplet (plural shoplets)

plural shoplets

  1. rareA small shop.

    […] that shoplet so obscurely placed amid other dark-browed houses […]

    1897, Margaret Barker Wright, Hired Furnished, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 383–384
    3 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

  1. Proto-Germanic*skup-
  2. Old Englishscoppa
  3. Middle Englishschoppe
  4. Englishshop
  5. Englishshoplet

From shop + -let.

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APA

shoplet. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoplet

MLA

“shoplet.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoplet. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shoplet,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shoplet.

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