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discount house

[dis-kount hous] / ˈdɪs kaʊnt ˌhaʊs /




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

From Time Magazine Archive

Polks, a large Chicago discount house, recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that.

From Time Magazine Archive

A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually�and lost $200,000 doing it.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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




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