greengrocery
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Our route took us past the tube station where a middle-aged white woman has a greengrocery stall.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2013
But, though it was steady enough, he dreamed of bigger things; once, when a reporter came to interview him at the greengrocery, he puckishly pretended that he was someone else, that "Alber" had moved away.
From Time Magazine Archive
He'll lose 2003 Revenues: $1.7 billion Henry Sy runs the Philippines' largest retailer, but he operates his SM Group almost as if it were a family-owned corner greengrocery.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the greengrocery market, the stalls were overhung with date branches, cinnamon stalks, strings of dried orange peels, gunny-bags of pistachios, fresh pears, pomegranates, and boxes of honeycombs.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
All the same, it was not a greengrocery business that she carried on, but, on the contrary, a little coal business: she sold coals clandestinely and in small portions to poor folk like herself.
From Norse Tales and Sketches by Kielland, Alexander Lange
Mr. Raggles himself had to supply the greengroceries.
From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace
