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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

There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

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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

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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