Definition of "shop-window" []

• A window of a shop, especially one of the front windows in which goods are displayed for sale; a show-window. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "And in this digital age, the proverbial "open for business" sign that used to dangle in the front shop-window has been replaced with the search bar."
• "While Gavroche was scrutinizing the shop-window and the cakes of windsor soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled a groan rather than a prayer."
• "The next time you meet in the street a young woman stopping for a moment to look into a shop-window, examine her face carefully."