radioteria

English

Etymology

Compare cafeteria.

Noun

radioteria (plural radioterias)

1. (US, dated, rare) A store that sells radios.
   • 1925 March 25, Chicago Daily News:

     Visit the radioteria, something new.

   • 1935, The New Yorker (volume 11, part 2, page 33)

     The lubratorium (a place for greasing motorcars) is marching eastward from the Pacific Coast, and with it comes the chowmeinery and the radioteria.

   • 1967, Hal Travers, Voyage Sixty-nine, page 38:

     I finally went into one radioteria and had the salesman demonstrate several of the transistor all-wave sets that he had in stock.