hat shop
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- noun
- /hæt ʃɑp/
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sombrerería
- I'll meet you in front of Molloy's hat shop at 2:30 as usual.
And then Berkeley at the Berkeley hat shop.
- And then Berkeley at the Berkeley hat shop.
Examples
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I went to this small hat shop, and I decided to buy a green one.
Blog text (28) -
He wandered into a hat shop one day to purchase a gift for his mother.
Blog text (18) -
What a beautiful hat shop!
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The hat shop owner is the role I was born to play!
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One morning on her way to work, Maria saw a new hat shop that had opened just down the street.
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On the day before Christmas Eve, the hat shop was busy.
Fiction book (2001) -
Blake owns a hat shop.
Fiction book (1997) -
Yes, my daughter runs a hat shop in Mayfair.
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When we passed Mr. Kodinski's hat shop, Miss Eula would always stop and look in the window at the wonderful hats.
Fiction book (2000) -
Maria visited a charming hat shop that offered a wide variety of stylish hats.
Synonyms
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Women's hats and the shop that makes and sells them
A local shop that makes and sells women's hats
A place that makes or sells hats
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a shop that sells hats' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'hat' (goods) with 'shop' (place of sale) as a noun–noun compound. This compositional and cross‑linguistically common pattern makes the MWE immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Hat shop comes from the simple idea of a place that sells hats: hat (the item) and shop (the place to buy). Long ago, shops filled their windows with women's hats to get people to come, so hat shop means 'a shop that sells hats'.