shoplet
nounUK /ˈʃɒplət/ · US /ˈʃɑplət/
Etymology * shop + -let
1
Rare A small shop.
- […] that shoplet so obscurely placed amid other dark-browed houses […]1897, Margaret Barker Wright, Hired Furnished, Boston: Roberts Brothers, pages 383–384:
- ""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 […]1905 August 23, “The Lounger”, in The Critic and Literary World, volume XLVII, number 2, page 108:
2 more examples
- […] to me it was encouragingly romantic to be recommended to a remailleuse […] whose shoplet was "en face de la Tour de Charlemagne, Madame."1924, Alice Van Leer Carrick, Collector's Luck in France, Boston: The Atlantic Montly Press, page 92:
- […] so long as he left 1 m 20 between the shoplet and his premises he has complied with the scheme's provisions.1945, A.M. Apelbom et al., editors, Law of Landlord and Tenant in Palestine, Tel-Aviv: S. Bursi, page 137: