Meaning of shop-soiled | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Synonym of shopworn.
2. Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.
3. Not fresh or new.
   figuratively

Examples

“All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match⟳ that chenille but at last⟳ she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice⟳”

“The only book of poetry in the whole lot was a shop-soiled copy⟳ of The Poems of George Herbert in the World Classics series.”

“The most usual examples of this are the sales of second-hand or shop-soiled goods where the vendor clearly states their condition and sells them "as seen".”

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