dolly shop

English

Noun

dolly shop (plural dolly shops)

  1. (Britain, obsolete) A shop where rags, old junk, etc., are bought and sold; an unlicensed pawnbroker's shop, formerly distinguished by the sign of a black doll.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dolly shop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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