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worn out by lying in a shop.
= shop-soiled adj.; in later use chiefly figurative.
In some senses of the verb. braided wares: goods that have changed colour, tarnished, faded. Obsolete.
depreciated in value and appearance from being on display for sale in a shop; in later use frequently figurative.