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shopboards

shopboards is the plural of shopboard.

Meaning of shopboard

Noun

shopboard (plural shopboards)

  1. (historical) A tradesman's counter or table where goods for sale are displayed.
  2. (historical) A workbench or platform on which a tradesman, especially a tailor, sits to work.
    • [N]or is there any place to let your legs hang down in, passengers sitting upon a platform like tailors on their shopboard.1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 206

Questions about shopboards

What is shopboards the plural of?
Shopboards is the plural of shopboard.

Words near shopboards in the dictionary

  1. shopaholics
  2. shopaholism
  3. shopathon
  4. shopathons
  5. shopboard
  6. shopboards
  7. shopbook
  8. shopbooks
  9. shopbot
  10. shopbots
  11. shopbought

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