1468: bodega and boutique Dec 18, 2018
No matter where—even across languages—'bodega' doesn't denote something that is necessarily fancy; in The Philippines, it refers to any warehouse, and in the Spanish speaking areas or the US it denotes a grocery store. The root word, from Greek, denoted a storehouse, so this makes sense today, but in French the etymological equivalent is 'boutique', which—denoting a small artisanal shop—is not so different literally but culturally is quite different. Indeed, both come from the Greek for 'apothecary': apothḗkē, which only denoted a place for storage.
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