Crossword clues for shoppe
shoppe
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
one of several Middle English variations of shop (n.). It appears in Chaucer. Noted by 1918 as an antiquarian affectation in U.S. commercial establishments.\n\nYE EAT SHOPPE\n
\nI admit that the name is against it. As a matter of fact, 732 Eighth Avenue is nothing more nor less than a good old-fashioned midnight lunch-room camouflaged by a flossy title.
[Helen Worden Erskine, "The Real New York," 1933]
Wiktionary
n. A fanciful spelling of (term: shop), chiefly used in the names of businesses to give an air of old-fashionedness.
Usage examples of "shoppe".
Gorwing roared, pounding on the front door of the Anything Shoppe with force enough to set adance the two sets of pony harness and the cabbage grater that hung against it.
Anything Shoppe look back, not forward, and are not found on the lists of forward-looking organizations.
Paige stopped by The Sweet Shoppe to pick up the chocolate covered peanuts her assistant Debbie loved.
The shoppe was tiny, with leaded-paned windows, dusty and fly-specked.
The frontage of the shoppe on the alley had seemed only twenty feet across, but here inside it was easily ten times as wide.
The light that he had seen straining through the obscured glass of the windows was a mere glow, trembling through the murky interior from a distance so far in the rear of the shoppe that it was no more than a suggestion of light.
From outside the shoppe came the sounds of great beasts prowling, of thundering machines, of death and horror.
He turned and stared down the length of the shoppe at the old man, who rocked slowly and waited.
He took three steps, as he had inside the shoppe, and turned around, thinking better of his purchase.
The stasis field held the shoppe inviolate, but though he was safe from the Infinite Dark Mass that pressed against its walls, its potency could still be felt: pressing against the field, incredible devouring power exerting unceasing pressure.
He turned and turned, looking for an answer to his actions, but everything in the shoppe spoke reproach.
Beyond the frame in that place he could see men and women working with photons, quarks and muons to create the supplies the shoppe used as stock.
When he returned to the shoppe, one of the Supervisors was waiting for him.
Sandwich Shoppe on the corner of Pine and arrive at the town cemetery in the field behind town hall.
Sandwich Shoppe, which served breakfast all day, there was a pharmacy at whose soda fountain the best raspberry lime rickeys in the Commonwealth could be had, as well as a hardware store that offered everything from nails to velveteen.