Shop-keeper

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Dated form of shopkeeper. alt-of, dated

    "…in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought."

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"…in some measure I descend to the fashion of the shop-keepers, who to scrue up the buyer to the higher price, will tell them no better can be had for mony, ’tis the choicest ware in England, and if any can match it, he shall have it for nought."

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