back-shopn.
/ˈbakˈʃɒp/ A small and usually private shop behind the main one; a secret place of business.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small (private) shop behind main shop
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warehouse1580
1549 in Abstracts of Protocols of Town Clerks of Glasgow 14 Oct. (1894) I. 4 A fore booth, with booth adjoining, cellars, and a small chamber, commonly called ‘ane bak chop’.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxxii. 751 When we keepe such Backeshops, it is a token that our heart is not rid quite and cleane.
1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iii. 47 Here a Bookseller in his back-shop slept.
1852 Blackwood's Mag. 32 458 Like a show table in Rundle and Bridge's back-shop.
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