Shopmate

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From shop + -mate.

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