Meaning of shopkeeperess | Babel Free

Definitions

Female equivalent of shopkeeper.

dated, feminine, form-of

Examples

“Mr. Gilman of South Carolina (Charleston) formerly of Salem—(son to the shopkeeperess) wrote the masterly analysis of Brown’s philosophy.”

“No commonplace, rosy, close-shaved bourgeois are there; no tight, trim, pale, eager shopkeeperesses, such as lately sold you bad gloves in the Rue d’Antin, or gave you short change for a guinea in the Marais.”

“While the latter was being sung, we were told how our neighbor had a falling out with her mother just before her husband died, and how the mother aforesaid would not attend the said husband’s funeral; but, subsequently, the mother met this afflicted daughter somewhere on the highway, and seeing her child dressed in deep mourning, the unnatural parent called at a milliner’s store, where both parties traded, and remarked to the shop-keeperess that she had just seen her daughter, and that she looked sad.”

“The shop-keeperesses of England have made the discovery that the proper length of a gentleman’s sock is the same as the measure of his clenched fist, round the knuckles.”

“The shopkeeperess was polite, but dignified.”

“Mr. Wiseman entered a shop to boy, among other articles, a new umbrella. The shopkeeperess showed him the newly-patented Self-opener, and praised its working.[…]The following day he called on the shopkeeperess, whose eloquence had induced him to obtain the new umbrella, and said:[…]”

“The retired shopkeepers and shopkeeperesses, who comprised the bulk of the local society, declined to have anything to do with him.”

“There is a difference also between a titled husband and his American wife. Why, then, do American women yearn to be a part of such a society, even on its outer fringe? Why do they yearn to be presented at courts which look down on them as successful shopkeeperesses? Why do they want their daughters to marry into a circle where they will always be held at arms’ length? Even if they marry dukes they are classed apart as “American duchesses,” and the queen herself sets them carefully aside when selecting her ladies of honor.”

“Ever try to buy anything from a fat French shopkeeperess who can’t understand a word of English—or American—while your knowledge of French is confined to the little forced upon you at high-school and as promptly forgotten?”

“Trying to save the shopkeeperess from concentration camp, Tono involuntarily causes her death.”

“When we reached the village rather than going to see Membury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort, we instead stopped at ‘Ye Olde Village Stores’ where we each brought a drink. The shop keeperess asked where we were from and when we said Oxford told us she too used to live there.”

“These restrictions meant that only a few widows could engage in formal commerce. Many more, however, can be observed operating in the ‘informal sector’, as in 1598 when a widow called ‘die Kremerin’ (‘the shopkeeperess’) was fined for having ‘bought up and regrated nuts and other foodstuffs’,[…].”

“One pass was actually issued to ‘Dominicus Gianelli, shopkeeperess [female form] (kræmmerske)’.”

“Thereon nothing was safe enough and sure enough for her, she disguised herself as an old shopkeeperess, colored her face, so that no person would recognize her, and went outward to the dwarf-house. She knocked on the door and cried: “open up, open up, I am the old shopkeeperess, that has good wares to sell.[…]“Come I will also comb you,” said the shopkeeperess, but hardly had the comb stuck Sneewittchen’s hairs, there it fell down and was dead.”

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