Shopkeepress

Quick meaning: Shopkeepress is a noun meaning Alternative form of shopkeeperess.

Meaning

Alternative form of shopkeeperess.

Example Sentences

Together with men as victims of curse tablets: DTA no. 78 (fourth century BCE [shopkeepress]); D.R. Jordan, ‘Three Curse Tablets’, in D.R. Jordan, H. Montgomery, E. Thomassen (eds.), The World of Ancient Magic (Papers from the Norwegian Institute at Athens, 4; Bergen: Paul Åström Förlag, 1999), pp. 115–24, no. 2 = DT 52 (fourth century BCE [prostitutes]).

This time, I took two tame pets, fed another immediately when I arrived on level four, and the four of us were battling the Kops with fair results when the shopkeepress bullied her way through the crowd to my side. Though I tried to pay the bill of some prior miscreant who had robbed her shop, I didn't have the pelf, and the lady was out for "blood, not money".

A few days ago, a stranger who had obtained a “local habitation” at a public-house in this town, waited upon a shopkeeper (or rather shopkeepress—since the grey mare is said to be the better horse) in the Back-street, and presented some excellent samples of tea and tobacco, which he intimated in a whisper were specimens of smuggled goods which he had for sale at a merely nominal price, but which he durst not expose lest they might come under the notice of the officers of Her Majesty’s Excise.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include storewoman, proprietess, shopwoman, mongress, shoplady, bartenderess.

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