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衫舖
  saam1 pou3*2   jyutping
clothes shop [Var.]

noun

Level: 2
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
衫舖 / 衫铺

This word has been viewed 1942 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by supermidget on 23rd Aug 2007 15:13 and last edited on 20th Aug 2011 17:26
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Characters in this word:

 saam1  -  shirt; gown; garment
 pou3 pou3*2  -  shop, store

Showing all 2 examples containing 衫舖
detail 兩個禮拜鐘意衫舖
I took the shirts that I bought two weeks ago at my favourite shop to be ironed.
[Note: although the verb and object could be separated by the lengthy adjective clause 兩個禮拜前喺我最鐘意嗰間衫舖買, it's more natural and more easily understood use the topicalised construction in this example.]
detail 兩個禮拜鐘意衫舖
I've taken the shirt that I bought in my favourite clothes shop two weeks ago to be ironed.
[[literal] I taken-have two-weeks-ago in my most-like that-(classifier)-clothes-shop buy that-(classifier)-shirt go iron This Cantonese example shows how a relative clause is composed without a relative pronoun. ]
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