noun

• 1A small store selling fashionable clothes or accessories.

  ‘The circle of chic establishments includes boutiques that sell fancy clothes, and lots of places to take your mummy for lunch.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The bags are being sold in Miami boutiques and art museum shops.’
  • ‘The magazine will be ‘distributed free in clothes shops, boutiques, pubs and cinemas’ and the first issue has a picture of a giant pigeon on the front cover.’
  • ‘I caught the bus to historic Scottsdale, which has more than 100 shops and boutiques, selling Indian jewellery and crafts.’
  • ‘It blares from the speakers of clothes boutiques and record shops.’
  • ‘This is the oldest part of the town, full of fashionable boutiques and galleries, cafés and antique shops.’
  • ‘The two then converted the fats from this waste into a commodity, soap, that they sold to fashion boutiques for $20 a bar.’
  • ‘They headed past clothes boutiques, take-aways and galleries towards the market.’
  • ‘The bustling town centre is the location of a number of supermarkets, shops and boutiques as well as a variety of pubs.’
  • ‘I barely dared hope for half-way decent clothes boutiques, music stores and fast food joints.’
  • ‘She would shop at large department stores, boutiques, and markets.’
  • ‘The show will include clothes from shops and boutiques in Dingle, Tralee and Killarney with a special emphasis on autumn/winter fashions.’
  • ‘With a myriad of chain stores, unique boutiques and trendy clothes stores, you will have no problem securing a festive peck under the mistletoe this year.’
  • ‘Over the bridge, Eton seemed to offer even more eating establishments than Windsor, dotted between an eclectic mix of shops, galleries and boutiques.’
  • ‘No poster stores or boutiques selling precious little $200 Guatemalan peasant skirts.’
  • ‘There'll be restaurants and coffee shops, boutiques and fast-food counters.’
  • ‘The streets are lined with stalls, boutiques and surf shops.’
  • ‘Her collections are now sold in top boutiques and stores worldwide.’
  • ‘List the malls, boutiques and department stores you aim to check out in order to eliminate aimless window-shopping.’
  • ‘Her ambition is not only to have a shop front initially, but to design and supply for boutiques and department stores.’

  Synonyms

  store, retail store, outlet, retail outlet, reseller, cash and carry

• 2often as modifier A business or establishment that is small and sophisticated or fashionable.

  ‘a boutique film’

  More example sentences

  • ‘a small investment boutique’
  • ‘It is interested in offering boutique money management services to business clients.’
  • ‘How much a business owner ends up paying a boutique investment banker can vary wildly.’
  • ‘We've seen the campaign profession grow from a boutique business to a mature, thriving industry.’
  • ‘While boutique wineries have greatly increased, the bulk of production is controlled by a handful of companies.’
  • ‘Wealth management has traditionally been the preserve of private banks and boutique investment firms.’
  • ‘The group is being advised in the deal by Strand Partners, a boutique London investment bank.’
  • ‘The fund management industry is increasingly splitting into niche boutique investment firms and enormous global firms.’
  • ‘There are also boutique publications that publish guides of everyone who earns over around 40,000 euros.’
  • ‘Others are hooking up with boutique vendors to gain specialized expertise.’
  • ‘The boutique publisher has also attracted a major high street retailer to back a Scottish football skills events being held this summer.’
  • ‘The wines sampled at the station are typically from Napa's boutique wineries.’
  • ‘Many of the large drapery shops have closed and instead a large number of boutiques have opened offering specialised merchandise.’
  • ‘Noble sees plenty of room in the market for another corporate finance boutique.’
  • ‘Instead, he has focused on the boutique Meantime Brewing Company of Greenwich, one of the country's leading microbreweries.’
  • ‘On Tuesday evening, they will talk through a business plan they have prepared with Long Acre, a corporate-finance boutique.’
  • ‘I don't think that the Inland Revenue would be overly troubled by the meagre income generated by my merchandising boutique.’
  • ‘Right now, we're doing small runs for a boutique design company that we're losing money on.’
  • ‘Business firms range in size from boutiques operated by individuals to huge multinational corporations employing thousands.’
  • ‘He believes the biggest recent change in fund management is the number of new boutique companies.’
  • ‘In the Sixties record shops operated as music boutiques, equipped with several listening booths further to facilitate the procurement of happening sounds.’