departmental store
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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I am all in favour of the departmental store.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But have none of them ever been in a departmental store before?"
From Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock
After much discouragement and disappointment Stephen had secured a position in the lumber mill at Lessing, and Alexina was promised a place in a departmental store in the city.
From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
But it did not get into the paper for the very good reason that "Old John" was the proprietor of the big departmental store which took a full-page advertisement in every issue the year around.
From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse
The free-lance ground stunt, then, had its origin in the initiative of a few pilots who recognised a chance, took it, and thus opened yet another branch in the huge departmental store of aerial tactics.
From Cavalry of the Clouds by Alan Bott
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