shoplet

English

Etymology

• shop +‎ -let

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ʃɒplət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ʃɑplət/
• Rhymes: -ɒplət, -ɑːplət

Noun

shoplet (plural shoplets)

1. (rare) A small shop.
   • 1897, Margaret Barker Wright, Hired Furnished, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 383–384:

     […] that shoplet so obscurely placed amid other dark-browed houses […]

   • 1905 August, “The Lounger”, in The Critic and Literary World, volume XLVII, number 2, page 108:

     ""At the Sign of the Jack-o'-Lantern" sounds like the name of a Hallowe'en comedietta, or perhaps of an arts-and-crafts shoplet […]

   • 1924, Alice Van Leer Carrick, Collector's Luck in France, Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, page 92:

     […] to me it was encouragingly romantic to be recommended to a remailleuse […] whose shoplet was "en face de la Tour de Charlemagne, Madame."

   • 1945, A.M. Apelbom et al., editors, Law of Landlord and Tenant in Palestine, Tel-Aviv: S. Bursi, page 137:

     […] so long as he left 1 m 20 between the shoplet and his premises he has complied with the scheme's provisions.