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shop

/ʃɑp/ interjection C2
  1. Used to attract the services of a shop assistant (dated)
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She was inexpensively clothed in a plain black dress that suggested a sort of uniform such as shop girls wear.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 28 · C1
“Well, that’s all we could reasonably expect from Morse Hudson,” said Holmes, as we emerged from the shop.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 81 · C1
Their eyes were immediately wandering up the street in quest of the officers, and nothing less than a very smart bonnet, indeed, or a really new muslin in a shop window, could recall them.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 79 · B2
All were struck with the stranger’s air, all wondered who he could be; and Kitty and Lydia, determined if possible to find out, led the way across the street, under pretence of wanting something in an opposite shop, and fortunately had just gained the pavement, when the two gentlemen, turning back, had reached the same spot.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 80 · B2

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