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boutique (n.)

"trendy fashion shop," 1950, earlier "small shop of any sort" (1767), from French boutique (14c.), from Old Provençal botica, from Latin apotheca "storehouse" (see apothecary). Latin apotheca directly into French normally would have yielded *avouaie.

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Definitions of boutique from WordNet

boutique (n.)
a shop that sells women's clothes and jewelry;
Synonyms: dress shop
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