Meaning of shopkeepress | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“A few days ago, a stranger who had obtained a “local habitation” at a public-house in this town, waited upon a shopkeeper (or rather shopkeepress—since the grey mare is said to be the better horse) in the Back-street, and presented some excellent samples of tea and tobacco, which he intimated in a whisper⟳ were specimens of smuggled goods which he had for sale at a merely nominal price, but which he durst not expose lest they might come⟳ under the notice⟳ of the officers of Her Majesty’s Excise.”

“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 shopkeepresses? 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.”

“This time, I took two tame pets, fed another immediately when I arrived on level four, and the four of us were battling the Kops with fair results when the shopkeepress bullied her way through the crowd to my side. Though I tried to pay⟳ the bill of some prior miscreant who had robbed her shop⟳, I didn't have⟳ the pelf, and the lady was out for "blood, not money".”

“Together with men as victims of curse tablets: DTA no. 78 (fourth century BCE [shopkeepress]); D.R. Jordan, ‘Three Curse Tablets’, in D.R. Jordan, H. Montgomery, E. Thomassen (eds.), The World of Ancient Magic (Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 4; Bergen: Paul Åström Förlag, 1999), pp. 115–24, no. 2 = DT 52 (fourth century BCE [prostitutes]).”

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