slopseller's shop
- noun
- Archaic
:
tienda de ropa barata
- The sailors visited the slopseller's shop to buy affordable clothes before departing.
Examples
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She bought a sturdy coat from a slopseller's shop near the docks.
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In old London, every street seemed to have its own slopseller's shop.
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I bought my coat from a slopseller's shop.
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The slopseller's shop down the street has great prices.
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In old London, every street seemed to have its own slopseller's shop that sold affordable clothing.
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She found a warm scarf at a slopseller's shop that was perfect for winter.
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Sailors often relied on the slopseller's shop for inexpensive, ready-made garments before setting sail.
Synonyms
8
9.3
An old way to spell shop that makes a store seem charming
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8.6
A shop that sells men's clothes and accessories like hats and ties
A shop that sells cheap ready-made clothes
A shop that sells used clothes and items cheaply to raise money for charity
Clothes or a small shop that sells them
How Cheap
Surface Forms
Morphology
slopseller's + shop
The phrase is compositionally a shop belonging to a 'slopseller' (seller of 'slops'), so morphologically it signals a place that sells something; however the crucial sense of 'slops' as cheap, ready-made clothing is archaic/rare and not the common meaning a B1 learner would know. Because the specific clothing sense is not predictable from the usual meaning of 'slop' (messy liquid/food waste), learners would not reliably infer the MWE's meaning without exposure.
Etymology
The noun slopseller's shop comes from old port towns where traders sold loose, ready-made clothes called slops to sailors. Sailors bought these cheap garments at small shops by the docks, so the name came to mean 'a shop that sells cheap, ready-made clothing'.