department store

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His father was an explosives engineer for a mining company in a little-known part of northern Spain, his mother worked in a department store.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

It depicts her in a black dress, ready to depart from her home in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., in November 1940, for Manhattan, where Gimbels department store was displaying her works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Get thee to a department store for some soft furnishings.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Left to talk, Jacobs whirls through stories of past, present and future: anecdotes about his grandmother planning her lunch spot around which department store she’d spend the day at, and memories of Bob Fosse films.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

“I thought . . . I thought it would be . . . a new experience to work in a large department store such as this.”

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu