中ちゅう店みせ

noun

mid-sized store

Used in commercial contexts to describe a store that is neither a small shop nor a large department store.

• この商しょう店てん街がいには中ちゅう店みせが多おおく、大おお型がた店てんは少すくない。

  This shopping street has many mid-sized stores and few large ones.

noun

middle-class brothel (in a red-light district)

Historical term for a brothel of intermediate status in a red-light district, between high-class and low-class establishments.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの吉よし原わらには、高こう級きゅうな大おお店だなと並ならんで中ちゅう店みせも存そん在ざいした。

  In Edo-period Yoshiwara, middle-class brothels existed alongside high-class establishments.