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plural noun

textile fabrics and related merchandise, as distinguished from groceries, hardware, etc.

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Origin of dry goods

First recorded in 1695–1705

Words nearby dry goods

dry fog, dry-footing, dry freeze, dry gangrene, Drygas, dry goods, dry-gulch, dry hole, Dry Ice, drying, drying oil

How to use dry goods in a sentence

Men in the mob grabbed axes from a nearby dry goods store and methodically chopped holes in the roofs of the buildings and then shot inside at random.
150 years ago, a mob attacked Los Angeles’s Chinese community|Reece Jones|October 24, 2021|Washington Post
Rowan says the couple who built the house in 1910 first lived in this huge garage, which they also operated as a dry goods store and the town post office.
Remember the creepy house from ‘The Silence of the Lambs’? Now it’s a vacation rental.|Kellie B. Gormly|September 9, 2021|Washington Post
Without any hesitation Henry paid a visit to the dry-goods store, and came home with a pair of new brown stockings for Benny.
The Box-Car Children|Gertrude Chandler Warner
There was a dry-goods clerk, who wore flaring ties, and who played the role of a "masher" upon the avenue every evening.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair

A long train of wagons were loaded with dry-goods for the markets of Northern Mexico.
A Fortune Hunter; Or, The Old Stone Corral|John Dunloe Carteret
He decided to open a dry-goods store in the city, but was unwilling to conduct business in the ordinary way of the country.
Silver Chimes in Syria|W. S. Nelson
We appear to have fallen in with a party of dry-goods drummers.
The Sleeping Car|William D. Howells

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