boutique

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of bodega and apothecary.

• IPA^(key): /buːˈtiːk/

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• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /boʊˈtik/
• Rhymes: -iːk

boutique (plural boutiques)

1. A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
2. A small shop located within a larger one.
3. (film) A film production company making only a few movies per year.
4. (often attributive) Any company that has an exclusively smaller client base generally in a niche market or specializing in bespoke or custom-made products or services.

   a boutique software consultancy

   • 1982, ABA Journal, volume 68, page 661:

     To keep attracting clients, the law firm of the future just might turn into a legal boutique, says Earle Yaffa, the managing director […]

• → Cebuano: botik

Inherited from Middle French boutique, borrowed from Old Occitan botica, from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē). Doublet of bodéga.

• IPA^(key): /bu.tik/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /bu.t͡sɪk/

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boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. (small) shop; boutique

• boutiquier
• fermer boutique
• garder la boutique
• tenir la boutique

• “boutique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of bottega.

• IPA^(key): /buˈtik/[1]
• Rhymes: -ik

boutique f (invariable)

1. boutique (shop)

Borrowed from Old Occitan botica.

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. shop (building where one can purchase items or services)

• French: boutique (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: boutique, bouotique
• → German: Boutique, Budike; Butike, Butik

• bouotique (Cotentin)

Borrowed from Old Occitan botica (or French boutique), from Latin apothēca, from Ancient Greek ἀποθήκη (apothḗkē, “repository, storehouse”).

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boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. (Jersey) shop

Unadapted borrowing from French boutique.

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. Alternative spelling of butique

Unadapted borrowing from French boutique. Doublet of apoteca, bodega, and botica.

• IPA^(key): /buˈtik/ [buˈt̪ik]
• Rhymes: -ik

boutique f (plural boutiques)

1. boutique

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• “boutique”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014