What's the difference between boutique and shop?

Boutique


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
  • (2) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
  • (3) On a visit to Liverpool in November 2006 Thompson stayed in a trendy boutique hotel, The Hope Street hotel, spending just over £180.
  • (4) Adner was speaking of the boutique, Danish, high-end maker of audio and video products .
  • (5) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
  • (6) This part of Paris has come to life again since Bercy’s historic wine warehouses were saved from demolition and converted into boutiques, bars and restaurants – and the Cinémathèque is the cultural heart, with its permanent collection, film festivals and exhibitions.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Paul’s Boutique, Beastie Boys, 1989 Suggested by: piscolahm Hip-hop group the Beastie Boys made their first appearance in 1986 and were immediately commercially successful.
  • (8) • Drinks about £12, Hornsgatan 82, Open Mon-Sat from 5pm, haktet.se Where to stay Facebook Twitter Pinterest HTL HTL HTL is a new and affordable boutique hotel and a perfect choice if location – it’s bang in the city centre – is more important to you than space.
  • (9) Their red and black flag flies above several of the tents in Kiev's sprawling downtown protest city; young volunteers – unarmed but wearing khaki fatigues – have commandeered a boutique and a city council office.
  • (10) Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011, has helped transform Margate into an emerging destination for the arts , while new hotels, such as the Albion House in nearby Ramsgate , cater for visitors looking for boutique-style accommodation.
  • (11) Stay Ace Hotel (+1 212 679 2222, doubles from $95) is a cool, unpretentious boutique hotel in downtown Portland.
  • (12) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
  • (13) Ed Hamilton, 47, author of a blog and book, Legends of the Chelsea Hotel, said: 'The management would like to throw out all the long-term tenants, gut the place and turn it into a boutique hotel for rich tenants, charging $400 a night.
  • (14) Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
  • (15) This was when American Apparel opened, the Canadian hipster magazine Vice moved to New York, and the sneaker boutique and branding agency Alife established itself on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
  • (16) A new independent boutique coffee shop may be benign in itself, but does it help usher in a new clientele to the area, even as a bridge-and-tunnel, just-visiting crowd?
  • (17) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
  • (18) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
  • (19) This picturebook-romantic Romanesque monastery with a handful of houses attached is tucked between the faded pinks and yellows of laid-back seaside resort Camogli and chi chi Portofino, with its superyachts and Dior boutiques selling €1,000 sandals.
  • (20) Shaded restaurants and boutiques of the south give way to glimpses of glass and steel through the trees, not least from the 52 floors of the World Trade Center, once the Hotel de México.

Shop


Definition:

  • () imp. of Shape. Shaped.
  • (n.) A building or an apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
  • (n.) A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a car shop.
  • (v. i.) To visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ofcom will conduct research, such as mystery shopping, to assess the transparency of contractual information given to customers by providers at the point of sale".
  • (2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
  • (3) The M&S Current Account, which has no monthly fee, is available from 15 May and is offering people the chance to bank and shop under one roof.
  • (4) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
  • (5) He was burnt alive along with three customers as flames from the car set his carpet shop ablaze.
  • (6) Shop staff must be trained in the procedure and a record kept of the training.
  • (7) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
  • (8) The mayor of London had said in a Twitter exchange in July that it was a “ludicrous urban myth” that Britain’s premier shopping street was one of the world’s most polluted thoroughfares, saying that the capital’s air quality was “better than Paris and other European cities”.
  • (9) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
  • (10) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
  • (11) Although 400 positions have been saved , a further 425 shop workers and head office staff have definitely lost their jobs.
  • (12) As well as stocking second-hand items for purchase, charity shops such as Oxfam have launched Christmas gifts to provide specific help for poor communities abroad.
  • (13) It acts as a one-stop shop bringing together credit unions and other organisations, such as Five Lamps , a charity providing loans, and white-goods providers willing to sell products with low-interest repayments.
  • (14) The last time I saw Ruqayah was in the summer of 2014, in a chain cafe in Cairo’s largest shopping mall.
  • (15) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
  • (16) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
  • (17) The Butcher’s Arms Herne Facebook Twitter Pinterest Martyn Hillier at the Butcher’s Arms Now a place of pilgrimage and inspiration, the Butcher’s Arms was established by Martyn Hillier in 2005 when he opened for business in the three-metre by four-metre front room of a former butcher’s shop.
  • (18) Raindrops on Roses Photograph: Felix Clay This boutique style, high-end gift shop in St Albans is one of a new breed of charity shops.
  • (19) To mark World Aids Day, THT is opening a charity shop in Soho Estates’ Walkers Court development in central Soho.
  • (20) It adds that the number of deals signed in relation to betting shops alone in 2012-13 was 77% greater than the number signed in in 2007-08.

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