A shop or market stall that specializes in selling eels and eel-based products.
Compound of 'eel' and 'shop' (Old English 'sceoppa' meaning a booth or stall). Common businesses in medieval and early modern port cities.
Eelshops in places like London and Amsterdam were so common they shaped neighborhood names—'Eelfish Lane' and similar street names in European cities mark where eel merchants once conducted business.
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