Definition of "oyster-shop" [oyster-shop]

• A shop for the sale of oysters. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Thackeray, of how, when one wet night they were all at a little oyster-shop then facing the Strand Theatre, the barmaid Jane, thoroughly out of humour at Jerrold's chaff, slapped down before the little man the liquor he had ordered, with the words, "There's your grog and take care you don't drown yourself;" with the effect of damping his spirits for the rest of the night."
• "And now they keep an oyster-shop for mermaids down below."
• "The last time I saw her she was cleaning the upstairs rooms at "Josephine's," the little oyster-shop off the Street of the Three Pebbles."