pawnshop
(ˈpɔːnʃɒp)
[f. pawn n.2 + shop.]
A pawnbroker's shop or place of business.
| 1849 J. P. Robson in Bards of Tyne, The Pawnshop in a Bleeze, The world was better far an sure When pawnshops had ne neym [= no name]. 1855 Mrs. Gaskell North & S. I. xx. 246 For these..there seems no other resource now that their weekly wages are stopped, but the pawn-shop. 1891 E. Kinglake Australian at H. ii. 10 Pawnshops, with their three golden balls dangling in front. |