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discount house

[dis-kount hous] / ˈdɪs kaʊnt ˌhaʊs /




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What really drives the stores to distraction is the customer who tries to return a gift bought from a competitor or at a reduced price in a discount house.

From Time Magazine Archive

German now is splattered with such terms as discount house, shopping center, ready to wear and cash and carry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mamie van Doren, with a kind of exactitude of casting, appears in a $39.98 dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shoppers quickly learned to visit a service-minded store for a free lesson about a particular product, then go down the street to a discount house to buy the item for 25% less.

From Time Magazine Archive

And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc