Boutique

As a boutique ( fr. ) and are referred Boutique retail stores that sell fashion items like clothing, jewelry, or related accessories. Boutique comes from the French and translated means small shop and general store.

In the lawyer's industry is known as boutique or boutique law firm, a relatively small but highly specialized firm, which often consists of just three to four lawyers and confined to the cover a few selected areas of law. Lawyer boutiques are contrary to law firms with partially several hundred lawyers.

In musical instruments has, starting from the English-speaking world, the term boutique naturalized since the late 1990s as a generic term for electric guitars and guitar amplifiers that are built in a very high quality and in small and very small edition completely by hand; often as bespoke customer specifications. Instruments produced in this way are priced located almost exclusively in the upper class.

Etymology

The word goes to the dictionary and the Knaur dictionary view over the Provencal botica ( = store) and this in turn to the Greek term pharmacy, in as much as storeroom, magazine meant back.

In German-speaking countries also exists the word Budike that is verballhornend inspired by the word Bude and no fashion, but rather (in the original French sense of the word ) denotes a general store.

In Danish and Norwegian, where the notation ' butik ' or ' butikk ' is the original meaning of the term received as 'Download' under which it superior to a retail store understands (not necessarily only fashion items such as clothes, jewelery or matching accessories ).