Of a product in a retail store: damaged from being on display and handled by customers, etc.; shop-soiled.
The handbag looks nice, but shopworn.
Not fresh or new.
Peace with honour—that immortal phrase coined by the greatest phrase-maker of his generation—has become slightly shop[-]worn, although still admittedly serviceable, and honour is not lightly to be defined.
From shop (noun) + worn (adjective).
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