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Shopgirl

Shopgirl \Shop"girl`\, n. A girl employed in a shop.

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shopgirl

n. A girl or young woman who works in a shop. A saleswoman.

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Shopgirl

Shopgirl is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Anand Tucker and starring Steve Martin, Claire Danes, and Jason Schwartzman. The screenplay by Steve Martin is based on his 2000 novella of the same name. The film is about a complex love triangle between a bored salesgirl, a wealthy businessman, and an aimless young man.

Produced by Ashok Amritraj, Jon Jashni, and Steve Martin for Touchstone Pictures and Hyde Park Entertainment, and distributed in the United States by Buena Vista Pictures, Shopgirl was released on October 21, 2005 and received generally positive reviews from film critics. The film went on to earn $11,112,077 and was nominated for four Satellite Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Shopgirl (novella)

Shopgirl is a 2000 novella written by Steve Martin. Martin adapted his book for a 2005 film of the same title.

Usage examples of "shopgirl".

Her penalty is that the men she attracts with her current package see her only from shopgirl 25.

The whine of the bacon sheer and the shopgirl licking a pencil stub racing up and down a wobbly tower of numbers on the back of a paper bag.

You must be going to make a fair few sandwiches says the shopgirl no I said no!

There was Desiree, led onto the stage by the man who would love her if she were a shopgirl still.

That is the shopgirl smile, and I enjoin you to shun it unless you are well fortified with callosity of the heart, caramels and a congeniality for the capers of Cupid.

And at length be reached the flimsy, fluttering little soul of the shopgirl that existed somewhere deep down in her lovely bosom.

In other words, the servant girl, being treated as a drudge, never having the right to herself, and worn out by the caprices of her mistress, can find an outlet, like the factory or shopgirl, only in prostitution.

Mary had the expression that his mama must have worn when as a seventeen-year-old shopgirl in Troyl she had no money for the movies, but made up for it by gazing spellbound at posters of Asta Nielsen.

He had probably seduced a few seamstresses and shopgirls who were overawed by him and let him take 182 Ken Follett charge.

His mind struggled to recall the nature and habits of shopgirls as be had read or heard of them.

Quite a number of people were in the street, shopgirls and clerks for the most part on their way home.

Nobody was supposed to die, particularly not some blind shopgirl, but the firefighters had to be tested.

The Dean recalled their athleticism and youthful indiscretions, the shopgirls they had compromised, the tailors they had bilked, the exams they had failed, and from his window he could look down on to the fountain where they had ducked so many homosexuals.

I'd love the day to come when Sadie shows round crowds of shopgirls and crossing sweepers, and offers them souvenirs afterwards.