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Pawnshop   /pˈɔnʃˌɑp/   Listen
Pawnshop

noun
1.
A shop where loans are made with personal property as security.  Synonyms: loan office, pawnbroker's shop.





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"Pawnshop" Quotes from Famous Books



... he assured them, and led the way out of the saloon and into still another grimy and disreputable place. It was Axel Olofsen's pawnshop and second-hand ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... out of Manchester on such an evening without meeting numbers of people staggering and seeing others lying in the gutter. On Sunday evening the same scene is usually repeated, only less noisily. And when their money is spent, the drunkards go to the nearest pawnshop, of which there are plenty in every city—over sixty in Manchester, and ten or twelve in a single street of Salford, Chapel Street—and pawn whatever they possess. Furniture, Sunday clothes where such exist, kitchen utensils ...
— The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 - with a Preface written in 1892 • Frederick Engels


Words linked to "Pawnshop" :   shop, loan office, store, pawnbroker's shop


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