All 3 Uses of
pawn shop
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York.†
Chpt 6 *pawnshop = a shop that offers loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral
- He had never set foot inside his pawnshop which he had inherited along with an efficient manager.†
Chpt 6
- Francie liked the pawnshop almost the best—not for the treasures prodigiously thrown into its barred windows; not for the shadowy adventure of shawled women slipping into the side entrance, but for the three large golden balls that hung high above the shop and gleamed in the sun or swayed languorously like heavy golden apples when the wind blew.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
a shop that either offers loans to individuals who use their personal property as collateral, or that purchases the personal property outright
At a pawn shop, collateral refers to personal property of the borrower that that is left at the pawn shop. If the loan isn't repaid with interest, the pawn shop keeps (the property an sells it to someone else. Otherwise, the property is returned to the borrower.