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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