单词 | storefront |
释义 | storefrontn.adj. Originally and chiefly U.S. 1. a. The side of a shop facing the street; (a building with) a shop window. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop-front shop-bulk1659 shopfront1745 storefront1880 1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes 376 A large porte-cochère..[opened] upon the banquette immediately beside and abreast of the store-front. 1922 F. Farrington Meeting Chain Store Competition iii. 37 You can make your store front as conspicuous as a red front Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. store front and still make it infinitely more attractive. 1945 Planning Store of Tomorrow (National Retail Merchants Assoc.) 6/1 Some are specialists on store fronts, but can do or supervise an intelligent job on interior layout. 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River (1963) lxx. 538 Some of the old foreign store fronts (such as Whiteaways) now exhibited shining lathes and other machines. 1974 R. L. Simon Wild Turkey iii. 19 [A] shocking pink storefront temporarily labeled ‘The Institute of Oral Love’. 1977 Guardian Weekly 4 Dec. 12/5 This indifference..turns storefronts not into show-cases for the articles sold by the shops but into museums of all the goods that were once sold there or will be sold at some future date. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 73 This little deli is just a storefront on a shopping-center strip, so look carefully. b. A room or rooms at the front of shop premises, esp. as used for some other purpose. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > rooms at front of shop storefront1972 1972 N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 22/2 The two fully staffed and fully equipped Nixon storefronts in the area contain busy volunteers. 1973 Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Texas Mag.) 2/1 The Hare Krishna sect..is big business. It began in an East Village store front in New York. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 7 Feb. 20/3 Performances first held in storefronts and lofts and later in streets, parks, and other public places. 1982 S. Paretsky Indemnity Only vii. 83 She ran a clinic in a shabby storefront down the street. 2. a. Of, pertaining to, or designating legal aid or citizen's advice organizations which operate from shop premises in order to be easily accessible. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [adjective] > of advisory organizations storefront1971 1971 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 31 Oct. 20/2 Why..can't we have legal offices in poor areas offering cheap legal aid along the lines of America's ‘store-front’ lawyers. 1973 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 9 June 1/3 A ‘store front’ legal and general advice system will be available cheaply to Brisbane people in a few weeks. 1973 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 2 Aug. 8/7 (advt.) Store-front Citizenship Office now open..to answer your questions about how you can become a Canadian citizen. 1974 Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 18 Apr. 6/1 A group called Resource One operates a storefront ‘people's computer’, a cross between a hip encyclopedia and a community bulletin board. 1974 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 Apr. 2/4 Australia's first ‘store front’ legal aid office will open in Ipswich tomorrow. 1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 1 Nov. 8/2 Robert Cooper..is a lawyer with an extraordinary string of..achievements in his chosen field, including the opening of Canada's first storefront law office. 1979 N. Hartley Quicksilver i. 19 Storefront law offices, giving free legal advice to minority groups. b. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a storefront church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [adjective] > set up in vacant store storefront1972 1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. v. 217 We see evidence of formal styles of Negro Non-Standard in the speech of the storefront preachers. 1973 Black World Sept. 31 ‘Tambourines’ has the impelling, fervent, and nervous rhythms of the ‘store-front’ spiritual or gospel hymn. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 1 May b 2/3 Store~front religion offered solace and precious respectability to mothers whose families were collapsing around them. 1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) v. 173 I hope that stuff hasn't taken you in; it's just our usual native storefront I'm-comin'-home-Jesus routine. Compounds C1. General attributive. storefront cinema n. ΚΠ 1967 Daily Tel. 16 Feb. 19/6 The Storefront Cinema..is a rented shop that has been converted into a miniature cinema. storefront headquarters n. ΚΠ 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 3 Apr. 5/1 He has more than 25 store-front headquarters in every one of the state's nine congressional districts. storefront industry n. ΚΠ 1967 Economist 6 May 563/2 Everywhere in Bangkok there are store-front industries where people are beating metal, mending things by hand, getting used to machines. storefront location n. ΚΠ 1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 11/4 Government information centres in ‘store-front locations’. storefront restaurant n. ΚΠ 1978 Chicago June 208/1 We've always liked to brag about Chicago's Mom-and-Pop storefront restaurants. storefront theatre n. ΚΠ 1973 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness 7 Sweating out long, hot summers in store-front theaters. storefront window n. ΚΠ 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 2 Oct. 15/1 A Teletype machine, set in the store-front window of the bureau. C2. storefront church n. a shop building used as a church or meeting place, esp. by small evangelical groups; also storefront mission, storefront synagogue, storefront temple. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] > set up in vacant store store church1948 storefront church1957 1957 Economist 28 Sept. 1031/2 The Negro newcomer from the South..may attend a ‘storefront church’, of uncertain denomination, in a rented shop with the display window painted over. 1965 D. Henderson in S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry (1973) iii. 269 The ritual is black The ritual is in the storefront temple On the corner. 1968 P. Oliver Screening Blues ii. 62 Infinitely smaller, but important because of their numbers and their devout followings of tiny congregations, are the multitude of store-front churches which line the streets in the Negro areas of the main urban centres. 1973 C. Himes Black on Black 167 For one hundred and fifty dollars he leased a storefront church in the heart of the slums and poverty. 1973 A. Dundes Mother Wit 175 Professor Dillard..examines the names of store-front churches... The individual words in store-front church names may be SE (Standard English). 1975 A. Bergman Hollywood & Le Vine (1976) vii. 80 A store-front synagogue in Brooklyn. 1978 Sunday Mail TV Suppl. (Brisbane) 23 July 2/2 The pair operate a store~front mission in a lower class area. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adj.1880 |
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