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five-and-ten

noun as in dime store

noun as in ten-cent store

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Example Sentences

But first she visited the five-and-ten-cent store to buy an egg-beater.

He ran private trains and sold acre and villa lots, and five-and ten-acre farms, for ten per cent.

A five-and-ten furnished a pair of heavy-rimmed glasses that seemed to have blanks in them, and he decided he might get by.

Naturally, I could think of nothing but Stigler and five-and-ten-cent competition, and finally I had an idea.

You know, I think there's room in this town for a good five-and-ten-cent store, specializing on kitchen goods.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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