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shop-window
1. a. A window of a shop, in which goods are displayed for sale.
c1447–8Shillingford Lett. (Camden) 85 Yn the whiche walle buth diverse shoppez wyndowes of olde tyme hadde. 1531–2Rec. St. Mary at Hill 359 For xvj staples to the shope windowes ij s viij d. 1632in E. B. Jupp Carpenters' Co. (1887) 296 All Sorts of Shopp Windows that are made for ornament or beautie. 1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. vi, I saw the prettiest hat you can imagine, in a shop-window. 1863J. MacGregor in Lady Fr. Balfour Life (1912) 132 As plainly as you see those men in some shop-windows in Glasgow go through the mysteries of hat-making.
b. transf. In the phrases: to open or shut (one's) shop-window, to begin or close the business of the day; also, to begin or give up business.
1477in Eng. Gilds (1870) 304 Whereupon fell and folowed greate trobles and enemitie: for some were disfraunchised, some imprysoned, some theire shop windows shutt downe. 1529Barber-Surg. Draft Rules §13 in Vicary's Anat. (1888) 254 That no persone presume to opyn his Shoppe wyndowes before he hath presented hymself to & before the Maysters or Gouerners of the sayde Mystere for the tyme beyng. 1646–7Nottingham Rec. V. 248 The shopp windowes of all persons that trade in this Towne whoe are not sworn burgesses shalbee forthwith shutt vpp. 1661Hickeringill Jamaica 80 It never makes him sell his land, nor shut Shop-windows up.
2. transf. and fig. A display of anything, resembling the display of goods by a tradesman, intended to catch the attention.
1905Times Lit. Suppl. 31 Mar., This..may surprise some who have seen the shop-window of American education, and have not looked behind it. 1929C. Connolly Let. Nov. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 328 [In America] a wife is a man's shop window. 1933P. Godfrey Back-Stage iii. 34 A ‘shop-window’ is a part which carries a low salary, but which, nevertheless, is likely to enhance his acting reputation. Certain small theatres are also ‘shop-windows’, like the Everyman Theatre in its early days. 1954[see end n. 7 c]. 1961Radio Times 6 Apr. 4/2 Once a year the BBC..stages a couple of all-star concerts as a shop-window for the kind of ‘pop’ programmes that it broadcasts..during the rest of the year. 1977Listener 17 Mar. 347/3 London was to be a city of individuals..rather than a shop-window of state, monarchy and empire.
Hence shop-ˈwindowful, as much or as many as a shop-window will hold.
1898G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Prof. iv. 231, I shouldn't enjoy..being bored at the opera to shew off a shop windowful of diamonds. |