shopworn

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a product in a retail store

   Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.; shop-soiled.

   • The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
   • Broke Sycamores by Oaks may be ſuppli'd: / Faln bricks by ſtones to make a Building fair; / But by ſuch patching 'tvvill be vvorſe alaſs, / Nevv generous vvine vvill break old Shop-vvorn Glaſs.
2. 2

   Not fresh or new.

   • Peace with honour—that immortal phrase coined by the greatest phrase-maker of his generation—has become slightly shop[-]worn, although still admittedly serviceable, and honour is not lightly to be defined.
   • The shopworn ghost-story part of the tale has been energized by the brilliant performance of little Owen Meany, who—despite his diminutive size—is a huge presence onstage; the miniature Meany simply dwarfs the other performers.

The neighborhood

• neighborshopwear