Hold the picture of one small room with not much in it, and everything in it chosen by hand. There are six coats, not six hundred. Somebody decided on each one, knows where it came from, and can tell you. Small here is not a shortage — it is the point, because it is what makes the attention and the choosing possible, and it is also why the price is higher. Every use of boutique carries that room with it, even when what is being sold is a hotel room, a bottle of wine, or a lawyer's time.
From the word’s history
English took the word from French boutique, a shop. It is a doublet of apothecary and bodega, words that trace back to the same idea of a storehouse or shop. So the shop meaning is where the word starts, and everything else is that shop used as a picture.
這個字是英文從法文 boutique（店舖）借來的。它和 apothecary、bodega 同源，都可以追回到「儲藏處、店舖」那一支。所以「店」是這個字的起點；後來的用法，都是把那家小店當成一張圖來借用。
Wiktionary entry for boutique, etymology supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:952970289): Borrowed from French boutique. Doublet of apothecary, apotheke, and bodega.
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