shopgirl

noun

shop·​girl ˈshäp-ˌgər(-ə)l How to pronounce shopgirl (audio)
: a woman employed to sell merchandise especially in a store

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Though many fans consider Skyward Sword to be the strongest evidence for Link and Zelda’s true love, the game also gives you the option to ruin everything and get Link involved with the shopgirl Peatrice. Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024 While Wintour’s shopgirl life was short-lived, Big Biba’s staff were a vital component of the experience remembered Thomas. Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024 Bow starred in the 1927 movie It (nothing to do with clowns) about a shopgirl who goes after a wealthy older man. Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2024 The film stars Bow as shopgirl Betty Lou, who schemes to win the heart of her employer, Cyrus Waltham Jr. (Antonio Moreno). Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024 But Parker was clearly relishing the shopgirl role. Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023 Living at the Hôtel Raphael in Paris, Jünger spent most of his days trawling antiques shops, studying early-modern entomologists, visiting mistresses, reading the Old Testament (twice), sampling narcotics, exchanging glances with shopgirls, and recording every minute reflection in his notebooks. Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023 Indeed, its story begins in the 1920s with one Hattie Carnegie, born Henrietta Kanengeiser to a Jewish family in Vienna, who took her last name as a nod to American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and went from working as a shopgirl at Macy’s to founding her own multimillion-dollar fashion brand. Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2021 Amalia escapes the cave with the help of Elisabetta Cassini, the lobotomized shopgirl who could make heavy objects defy gravity and apparently still can — a nice little reveal that Hague’s mining army might not be beyond saving. Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021

Word History

First Known Use

1798, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of shopgirl was in 1798

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“Shopgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopgirl. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.

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