Definition of "sweetshop" []

• Chiefly British A candy store. (noun)

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• "What would a "sweetshop" be to-day without chocolate, that summit of the confectioner's art, when the rich brown of chocolate is the predominant note in every confectioner's window?"
• "I have just seen the dude in question on TBR he was outside the sweetshop which is on the corner of Decima Street an was being shouted at by the shopkeeper there."
• "I used to try to scare him, to make him laugh, said Anil Lakhotia, Yash's father, as he wept in a cafe around the corner from his busy sweetshop."