shopmate

noun

shopmate

noun

Etymology From shop + -mate.

1

A person working in the same shop.

Of the latter class many would come because they would not be chaffed by their shopmates for going into a theatre on Sunday, though they would be most fearfully if they went to church or chapel.1868, The London City Mission Magazine, volume XXXIII, page 33:

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