A small shop, especially one that sells fashionable clothes, jewelry and the like.
The word "boutique" is correct and usable in written English. It can be used to refer to a small shop that sells stylish or exclusive merchandise. For example: "I am going shopping at a local boutique today to see if they have any dresses in my size".
At fashion boutique Bodice, owner Ruchika Sachdeva offers androgynous design, unconventional cuts and uses traditional methods such as block printing.
Horseback tours in Andalucia Almohalla 51, a boutique guesthouse in the Andalucian town of Archidona, is launching food tours on horseback from spring.
The problem with taking your 10-month-old baby on holiday to a luxury, five-star boutique hotel is that the magnitude of this fact leaves them cold.
Jennifer Cox, author of Around the World in 80 Dates Small boutique hotels and B&Bs are often run by eccentrics who like spending time with their guests – maybe over a nightcap, though I've had them introduce me to their friends and take me to parties.
"The recent opening of a Vivienne Westwood boutique and the creativity coming out of the renowned fashion school at Northumbria University certainly bears Parisian comparison".
Where there were once elaborate homes, ski lodges, spas, restaurants and boutique hotels, there are now just gigantic scraped rectangles of red earth, with the great shadows of charred and crippled trees falling across them.
In the last three years, Britain has seen an explosion of low-key, home-grown holiday options, from tipis in Welsh valleys offering comforts normally associated with a boutique hotel to environmentally-sound log cabins in forests.
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