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department store

noun

a large retail store carrying a wide variety of merchandise and organized into various departments for sales and administrative purposes.

department store

An Americanism dating back to 1885–90

Target was established in 1962 by the Dayton brothers as a discount offshoot of their eponymous Twin Cities department store.

In 1974, 75 members of the group descended on a Copenhagen department store.

The chants continued in front of the high-end department store.

A department store piano melody plays in the background while he admires everything he can see.

She loses them briefly in a department store, but finds them a few moments later, and the incident is never mentioned again.

Ede was the type after which some department store advertising-department diplomat had coined the term "stylish stout."

I don't know anything; I can only presume that he doesn't intend to open a department store in the Everglades.

She had not conducted them to a department store, but to the small shop of a decidedly exclusive children's outfitter.

And she gave me a note to a department store which will probably take me on.

This Chinaman had established in Singapore the kind of store which we in America think we invented—the department store.

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