fancy goods
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Once upon a time, Tiffany was the name of a person: Charles Lewis Tiffany, who, along with John B. Young, opened a “stationery and fancy goods store” on Broadway in 1837.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2019
It’s not just the fancy goods that they want, as some see it, but also the connection to modern life that such things represent.
From Washington Post • Jul. 4, 2016
Both, as it happens, were attributes prized by Charles Lewis Tiffany, who helped found a store that sold stationery and fancy goods in 1837 with a $1,000 grubstake from his father.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2015
The stories he tells are Dickens's fancy goods, picked up while he tramped the streets.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2013
Other sources of employment are the cutting of hair for making hats, the production of fancy goods, type, machinery, soap and perfumery, ready-made clothing, chemicals, electro-technical apparatus, jewelry and metal wares.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
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