单词 | show shop |
释义 | show shopn. 1. Chiefly depreciative. A theatre, (later) esp. one in which musicals, variety acts, or similar shows are performed. Also occasionally: a show, an exhibition. Now somewhat rare and historical (U.S. in later use). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > showing to the sight > exposure to public view > an exhibition > [noun] display1661 exhibition1761 show shop1772 travelling exhibition1800 show1831 exposition1851 showing1885 exhibit1894 étalage1900 show-up1931 installation1969 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > other types of theatre little theatre1569 private house1604 private playhouse1609 amphitheatre1611 private theatre1633 droll-house1705 summer theatre1761 show shop1772 national theatre1816 minor1821 legitimate1826 patent house1827 patent theatre1836 showboat1839 music theatre1849 penny-gaff1856 saloon theatre1864 leg shop1871 people's theatre1873 nickelodeon1888 repertory theatre1891 studio theatre1891 legit1897 blood-tub1906 rep1906 small-timer1910 grind house1923 theatrette1927 indie1928 vaude1933 straw hat1935 theatre-in-the-round1948 straw-hatter1949 bughouse1952 theatre-restaurant1958 dinner theatre1959 theatre club1961 black box1971 pub theatre1971 performance space1972 1772 F. Gentleman Theatres 6 Pervade the Grub-street gloom, which wraps around Our Royal Show Shops. 1796 Morning Chron. 28 Apr. 3/4 Give that Theatre more the air of a little Opera House, than a summer Show Shop. 1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 431 How the fellow's [sc. show-man's] show-shop would be crowded! 1920 J. Forbes (title) The show shop. 1926 E. O'Neill Let. ?23 Aug. in Sel. Lett. (1988) 213 If you are ‘getting tired’ of conditions in the show-shop from your end as a director, I am certainly getting God damn tired of them. 1946 Billboard 22 June 52/1 There are a couple of show shops—the Lyceum..and the Dominion—which have a 2,800-seat capacity. 1999 J. Frick in D. B. Wilmeth & C. Bigsby Cambr. Hist. Amer. Theatre II. ii. 223 America's art theatres were..consciously founded as an alternative to the ‘show shops’ of Broadway. 2. A shop containing a prominent display of goods for sale; spec. (chiefly depreciative) a shop displaying fixed-price clothes, shoes, etc., which are made to measure in a separate workshop. Cf. slop-shop n. Now historical.In quot. 1787 figurative. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > showroom show house1505 showroom1616 show shop1787 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > other types of shop show shop1787 lock-up shop1795 cash-store1811 boat shop1813 slaughter shop1841 slaughterhouse1851 ticket-shop1851 charity shop1853 magic shop1853 company store1872 Army and Navy1878 five-and-ten1880 farthing-shop1889 funeral home1895 goodwill1916 shop-within-(a)-shop1916 cash and carry1917 Piggly Wiggly1917 poverty shop1948 discount house1949 anchor1960 box store1976 mom-and-pop1976 op shop1978 duty-free1980 pound shop1983 pop-up2000 1787 Final Farewell 10 Bid adieu to those Whom Taylors use as show-shops for their cloaths. 1790 E. Darwin Let. 17 Dec. (2007) 372 By means of his show-shop and many-colour'd window. 1834 New Monthly Mag. June 207 There is a vast number of what are called ‘show shops’..where clothes of every description are sold cheap. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. x. 162 The public ran daily more and more to the cheap show shops. 1979 I. J. Prothero Artisans & Politics Early 19th-cent. London ii. 44 By 1815 a growing section of the [tailoring] industry was in the hands of ‘show-shops’ and ‘slop shops’ producing inferior and, in the latter case, ready-made articles for the mass market. 2008 S. Blackburn Fair Day's Wage for Fair Day's Work? i. 18 Show shops depended on aggressive advertising, bulk sales, low margins of profit and speed in production. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1772 |
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