wholesale house
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From the very start, Renoir lampoons the craven cynicism of the good burghers of France, in a scene of a private banquet for the employees of the wholesale house where Legrand works.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2016
With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1948 he launched Dior-New York, a wholesale house for which he designs twice-yearly collections derived from Paris motifs but aimed at the U.S. taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a wholesale house for heavy spectacle it is no more.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ll order some from the wholesale house, son. We do a real good bizness in fine-tooth combs. Lots a-town folks got trouble with them critters.”
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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