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discount house

[dis-kaunt haus] / ˈdɪs kaʊnt ˌhaʊs /




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A kind of Greek chorus of Harlem harpies gibber, clown, and rummage about as if they were witnessing the fall of a discount house of Atreus.

From Time Magazine Archive

One big Chicago corporation recently bought all its employees Christmas presents from a discount house, picked up 700 radios at $9.45 each, v.

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The discount house is not a new idea.

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.

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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 Marie Belloc Lowndes




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