Meaning of shop-keeper | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of shopkeeper.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“…in some measure⟳ I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell⟳ them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match⟳ it, he shall have⟳ it for nought.”

“Oh! how blissful is imagination coloured by hope⟳, and how far more enviable a state than to degenerate into a shop-keeper’s wife, counting out greasy halfpence in the dog-days, or darning her husband’s ragged stockings over the cradle of a squalling brat, singing lullaby with a voice that might have⟳ roused a sultan from his cambric pillow, enraptured with the sylvan strain⟳!”

“The women wear⟳ neck-kerchieves spreading over their shoulders, and ruffs, but their aprons show⟳ that they are shop-keepers rather than gentry; their high-crowned felt hats are of the mid-Elizabethan fashion.”

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