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variety store
noun
- a retail store, as a five-and-ten, carrying a large variety of goods, especially low-priced articles.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of variety store1
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Idioms and Phrases
A retail shop that carries a large selection of usually inexpensive merchandise, as in What this town needs is a good variety store . [Second half of 1700s]Discover More
Example Sentences
We carry the biggest line of Variety Store Leaders in the country, and our goods are always of the best.
His store was next door to the then popular Bonafanti, who kept the largest and best patronized variety store of the day.
Wibird Penhallow's heaviest patron was the keeper of a variety store, and the first specimen of a pessimist I ever encountered.
The War Department by watchmen, the law by constables, the merchants by a variety store, etc.
Mr. Brazer's establishment, which was known as a "variety store," came in for the best part of this trade.
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