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He […] finds himself looking across the street, at a little bodega on the corner.
(informal,Southwestern US) Any small or medium-sized shop with a unique facade in a shopping center plaza, usually located in the center or the sides of the plaza. (Does not include the anchor tenant of the shopping center, as they are usually referred to as the anchor.)
1925, Everett D. Gothwaite, Trade in Philippine Copra and Coconut Oil, page 51:
Copra as brought into town from the plantations in bull carts is hauled to the door of his bodega, and the sale is negotiated.
1958, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the Philippines, page 413:
They allowed Filipinos to go inside the bodega of the Central and get all the sugar they needed.
1960, Philippines. Congress (1940-1973). Senate, Republic of the Philippines Congressional Record:
Under the law, that is sufficient, and they make it clear that the value or the purchase prices is ₱100,000, and the bank is compelled under this proviso to accept the ricemill or bodega as sufficient collateral.
c.1250, Gonzalo de Berceo, Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora, (published by Claudio García Turza, 1992, Madrid: Espasa-Calpe):
Entró enna bodega un día por ventura, bebió mucho del vino, esto fo sin mesura; embebdóse el loco, issió de su cordura, yogo hasta las viésperas sobre la tierra dura.
He entered in the cellar one day by chance, and he drank a lot of the wine, this was without measure. The madman became drunk, and lost his sanity. He lay until vespers on the hard ground.