shopgirl
noun
shop·girl
ˈshäp-ˌgər(-ə)l 
: a woman employed to sell merchandise especially in a store
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Bronte worked as a shopgirl at Mooney’s bookshop while Joe was restoring it (a throwback to season 1) and seemingly fell in love with him while trying to expose him for the murder of Beck, the first love interest and obsession of Joe’s from that season.
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Charley Ross, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Though many fans consider Skyward Sword to be the strongest evidence for Link and Zelda’s true love, the game also gives you the option to ruin everything and get Link involved with the shopgirl Peatrice.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
While Wintour’s shopgirl life was short-lived, Big Biba’s staff were a vital component of the experience remembered Thomas.
—Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
Bow starred in the 1927 movie It (nothing to do with clowns) about a shopgirl who goes after a wealthy older man.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2024
The film stars Bow as shopgirl Betty Lou, who schemes to win the heart of her employer, Cyrus Waltham Jr. (Antonio Moreno).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
But Parker was clearly relishing the shopgirl role.
—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
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Charley Ross, Glamour, 25 Apr. 2025
Though many fans consider Skyward Sword to be the strongest evidence for Link and Zelda’s true love, the game also gives you the option to ruin everything and get Link involved with the shopgirl Peatrice.
—Ashley Bardhan, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
While Wintour’s shopgirl life was short-lived, Big Biba’s staff were a vital component of the experience remembered Thomas.
—Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 19 Mar. 2024
Bow starred in the 1927 movie It (nothing to do with clowns) about a shopgirl who goes after a wealthy older man.
—Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2024
The film stars Bow as shopgirl Betty Lou, who schemes to win the heart of her employer, Cyrus Waltham Jr. (Antonio Moreno).
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
But Parker was clearly relishing the shopgirl role.
—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
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“Shopgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shopgirl. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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