ice-cream shop

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ice-cream shop (plural ice-cream shops)

  1. Alternative form of ice cream shop.
    • 1988, Dennis Kondo, Business Basics in Hawaii: Secrets of Starting Your Own Small Business in Our State, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 18:
      For instance, if you plan to open an ice-cream shop in Kailua, compare your estimates to actual sales of other ice-cream shops in Honolulu or on the outer islands.
    • 1991, Francis McKee, “Ice Cream and Immorality”, in Harlan Walker, editor, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 1991: Public Eating: Proceedings, Prospect Books, published 1992, →ISBN, pages 202–203:
      Sergeant Spence, of the Northern District, speaking of the behaviour of the boys and girls who frequented the ice-cream shops, stated that they were in the habit of smoking cigarettes and dancing to music supplied by a mouth organ, while the language was more forcible than polite.
    • 1999, Tara Taylor Quinn, chapter 12, in Her Secret, His Child, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 179:
      They ate together a couple of evenings a week, went to movies, played in the park, visited the ice-cream shop, even went grocery-shopping once when Kyle stopped by as Jamie and Ashley were on their way to do that weekly chore.