jumble sale

noun

British.

1. rummage sale.

jumble sale

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: rummage sale. a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity

Word History and Origins

Origin of jumble sale¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.

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They’d found a piece of fabric in a jumble sale together.

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More than a century later, the book was found among a pile of books at a charity jumble sale by Cindie Raven in Dorset.

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Charity shops and jumble sales have long offered a reliable way to extend the life of clothes.

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He unwittingly releases a drift of pigs from a house and later comes across an elegant jumble sale of a man who wields his walking stick like a “conductor’s baton.”

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