groceriaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

groceria (複数形 grocerias)

1. (US) A Hispanic grocery store.
   • 1970, Paul Spike, “The Conference Man” in Bad News, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 90,^[2]

     She walked toward Avenue C. The black tar with a hideous spectre and the dim grocerías tucked into the walls.

   • 1983, Timothy Cohrs, Tendencies, New York: St. Martin/Marek, Chapter , p. 210,^[3]

     The action on the block had moved from the individual stoops to the bit of sidewalk in front of a groceria about three-quarters of the way down toward First Avenue.

   • 1990, Robert Chibka, A Slight Lapse, New York: Norton, Chapter Six, p. 182,^[4]

     ‘ […] it’s mostly Spanish up there now I think, and it’s probably got cigar stores and grocerías and Spanish graffiti, which looks the same as English graffiti, since you can’t read any of it anyway.’

   • 2001, Vivian Gornick, “My Neighborhood, Its Fall and Rise,” New York Times, 24 June, 2001,^[5]

     On 180th Street, worse: empty lots everywhere interspersed with random sections of stores: a groceria, a drugstore, a church; a stretch of emptiness and discard […]

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