gift shop
noun
: a store (such as a small store in a museum) that sells things which might be given people as gifts
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My first — and really only job in Austin — was working as a sales clerk at a funky local gift shop in Barton Creek Mall called Lone Star Illusions, owned by Alan Lifshen.
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Shonda Novak, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
All that said, the Impressionist exhibit does face off strongly against one of the garden’s main elements: its gift shop.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 July 2025
The distillery, at 113 Great Buffalo Trace, typically draws a line of hundreds each morning to purchase a bottle at its gift shop.
—Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2025
Land Park Lanes hosted a Japanese American bowling league, dances and other social events that helped bond a displaced community that included his parents, then owners of a 10th Street gift shop in what was once the city’s Japantown.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2025
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Shonda Novak, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
All that said, the Impressionist exhibit does face off strongly against one of the garden’s main elements: its gift shop.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 28 July 2025
The distillery, at 113 Great Buffalo Trace, typically draws a line of hundreds each morning to purchase a bottle at its gift shop.
—Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 26 July 2025
Land Park Lanes hosted a Japanese American bowling league, dances and other social events that helped bond a displaced community that included his parents, then owners of a 10th Street gift shop in what was once the city’s Japantown.
—Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2025
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“Gift shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gift%20shop. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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