| 单词 | variety shop or store |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvariety shop or store a. variety shop or store, one in which small goods of various kinds are sold; a general store. North American (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > general store general shop1803 variety shop or store1824 general store1827 winkel1827 tienda1844 1768 Boston Evening Post 21 Nov. 3/3 Just imported in the Bristol Packet..and to be Sold by William Jackson At his Variety Store,..Nails, Brads, and Tacks of all sorts. 1790 Columbian Centinel (Boston) 15 Sept. 4/2 To be sold, at J. Brazer's Variety-store,..Holland Gin, of the best kind, in cases. 1824 ‘A. Singleton’ Lett. from South & West 84 One indication of a new country is that the shops are variety-shops; each one keeping piece-goods, groceries, cutlery, porcelain, and stationary [sic] in different corners. 1829 in Thornton Amer. Gloss. [The collected trumpery] gives the Mayor's office the appearance of a ‘variety store’. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life I. xv. 149 A ‘variety store’, offering for sale every possible article of merchandise, from lace gloves to goose-yokes [etc.]. 1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 888/1 One of them walked gauntly down to the post-office in the corner of the variety store. 1965 H. Hood in R. Weaver Canad. Short Stories (1968) 2nd Ser. 218 We proceeded to the general store, grocery store, variety store, butcher shop, what would you call it? 1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 1 Nov. 25/1 Variety store owners just grin and bear the hockey card mania. < as lemmas |
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