dress goods
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dress goods
An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
Example Sentences
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Sewing skills learned from her late mother, a Chinese immigrant, help 14-year-old Hanna and her White father to combat the town’s racially motivated resistance to their dress goods business.
From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2020
At any rate, they reached the heart of the audience, even though it was seated in between erstwhile counters of dress goods, tableware, notions.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the manufacturer's showrooms the buyer may spend a whole day in a booth inspecting dress goods, sometimes on live models.
From Time Magazine Archive
They bought dress goods, rubbers and overshoes, canned goods, cosmetics.
From Time Magazine Archive
That evening we met Lani and her mother at the village store and postoffice and she soon became the recipient of much in the line of bright colored dress goods.
From Six Prize Hawaiian Stories of the Kilohana Art League by Armstrong, W. N.
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