- boutique
[boutique 词源字典]
- boutique: see apothecary
[boutique etymology, boutique origin, 英语词源] - boutique (n.)
- "fashion shop," 1953, earlier "small shop of any sort" (1767), from French boutique (14c.), from Old Provençal botica, from Latin apotheca "storehouse" (see apothecary). Latin apotheca directly into French normally would have yielded *avouaie.