country store
- a general store, especially in a rural or resort area.
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Origin of country store
An Americanism dating back to 1735–45
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After all, what could this country-store clerk know of the Avenue?
Love StoriesMary Roberts Rinehart
The threshold of the door was elevated, country-store fashion, six or seven inches above the sidewalk.
Laramie Holds the RangeFrank H. Spearman
Coming out again upon the street, we stray down into one of the shops,—a shop local and naïve, a veritable French country-store.
A Midsummer Drive Through The PyreneesEdwin Asa Dix
Next he withdrew the book of verses and after that the country-store note-book with its dog-eared and age-yellowed pages.
DestinyCharles Neville Buck