shop-soiled

shop-soiled

See also: shopsoiled

English

Adjective

shop-soiled (comparative more shop-soiled, superlative most shop-soiled)

1. Soiled from display in a shop; shopworn.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13

     All Tuesday week afternoon she was hunting to match that chenille but at last she found what she wanted at Clery's summer sales, the very it, slightly shopsoiled but you would never notice

   • 1977, Paul Hasluck, Mucking About: An Autobiography

     The only book of poetry in the whole lot was a shop-soiled copy of The Poems of George Herbert in the World Classics series.

   • 2004, Richard Christou, Drafting Commercial Agreements

     The most usual examples of this are the sales of second-hand or shop-soiled goods where the vendor clearly states their condition and sells them "as seen".