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fancy goods

plural noun

  1. small decorative gifts; knick-knacks

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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Tiffany’s roots date to 1837, when it started selling stationery and “fancy goods” in Manhattan.

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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.

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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.

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The stories he tells are Dickens's fancy goods, picked up while he tramped the streets.

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