shopgirl
noun
shop·girl
ˈshäp-ˌgər(-ə)l 
: a woman employed to sell merchandise especially in a store
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But Parker was clearly relishing the shopgirl role.
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
Living at the Hôtel Raphael in Paris, Jünger spent most of his days trawling antiques shops, studying early-modern entomologists, visiting mistresses, reading the Old Testament (twice), sampling narcotics, exchanging glances with shopgirls, and recording every minute reflection in his notebooks.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
Indeed, its story begins in the 1920s with one Hattie Carnegie, born Henrietta Kanengeiser to a Jewish family in Vienna, who took her last name as a nod to American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and went from working as a shopgirl at Macy’s to founding her own multimillion-dollar fashion brand.
—Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2021
Amalia escapes the cave with the help of Elisabetta Cassini, the lobotomized shopgirl who could make heavy objects defy gravity and apparently still can — a nice little reveal that Hague’s mining army might not be beyond saving.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
The story centers around a love affair between Kemal, a wealthy member of a prominent Istanbul family, and Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and distant cousin.
—Daniel H. Weiss, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
As Julia Roberts once told some shopgirls: big mistake.
—Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
There is a Chinese performance artist who dons eco-fashion ball gowns and a Copenhagen shopgirl who cycles to work in head-to-toe pastels.
—Vogue, 5 Sep. 2018
In it, the nine members of TWICE portray the role of shopgirls in a record store auditioning for a spot as television performers -- which also is judged by the nonet.
—Tamar Herman, Billboard, 14 June 2018
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Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
Living at the Hôtel Raphael in Paris, Jünger spent most of his days trawling antiques shops, studying early-modern entomologists, visiting mistresses, reading the Old Testament (twice), sampling narcotics, exchanging glances with shopgirls, and recording every minute reflection in his notebooks.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
Indeed, its story begins in the 1920s with one Hattie Carnegie, born Henrietta Kanengeiser to a Jewish family in Vienna, who took her last name as a nod to American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and went from working as a shopgirl at Macy’s to founding her own multimillion-dollar fashion brand.
—Alison S. Cohn, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2021
Amalia escapes the cave with the help of Elisabetta Cassini, the lobotomized shopgirl who could make heavy objects defy gravity and apparently still can — a nice little reveal that Hague’s mining army might not be beyond saving.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 17 May 2021
The story centers around a love affair between Kemal, a wealthy member of a prominent Istanbul family, and Füsun, a beautiful shopgirl and distant cousin.
—Daniel H. Weiss, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
As Julia Roberts once told some shopgirls: big mistake.
—Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 18 Nov. 2019
There is a Chinese performance artist who dons eco-fashion ball gowns and a Copenhagen shopgirl who cycles to work in head-to-toe pastels.
—Vogue, 5 Sep. 2018
In it, the nine members of TWICE portray the role of shopgirls in a record store auditioning for a spot as television performers -- which also is judged by the nonet.
—Tamar Herman, Billboard, 14 June 2018
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First Known Use
1798, in the meaning defined above
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