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Chemist's shop   /kˈɛmɪstz ʃɑp/   Listen
Chemist's shop

noun
1.
A retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold.  Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, drugstore, pharmacy.






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"Chemist's shop" Quotes from Famous Books



... would sit with her relative in her darkened room, which always seemed to hold a peculiar and distinctive atmosphere, resembling that of a chemist's shop. She brought her all the news that she thought would interest or amuse her, read the letters from home, tempted her to drive out, and read her new novels; but in these days Aunt Flora seemed to ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker

... a nice town. I saw the stretch of river on which the languid Levitan used to live. I saw Kineshma, where I walked along the boulevard and watched the local beaus. Here I went into the chemist's shop to buy some Bertholet salts for my tongue, which was like leather after the medicine I had taken. The chemist, on seeing Olga Petrovna, was overcome with delight and confusion; she was the same. They were evidently ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... height of summer, when London smells like a chemist's shop, and he who has the dinner-table at the window needs no candles to show him his knife and fork. I lay back at intervals, now watching a starved-looking woman asleep on a door-step, and again complaining of the club bananas. ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various



Words linked to "Chemist's shop" :   store, shop, chemist's, pharmacopoeia, apothecary's shop, pharmacy



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