Macy

[mey-see]

noun

1. R(owland) H(ussey) 1823–77, U.S. retail merchant.

Example Sentences

Stewart’s Marble Palace and Macy’s revolutionized retail by offering fixed prices, return policies and vast selections, essentially bringing a long street of shops under one roof.

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When his parents would pick him up from the mall, they would roll their eyes and tell him he smelled like a Macy’s counter.

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For the encore, they cleared the perimeter of the stadium floor and drove around on giant, telescoping platforms, trailed by inflatable characters, like they were in a Macy's Day parade.

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In 1999, the director Paul Thomas Anderson memorably used “Goodbye Stranger” to soundtrack a dramatic scene starring William H. Macy in the movie “Magnolia.”

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An unlikely corner of one of L.A.’s once-famous/now-dead malls is open for business again this week as residents move into luxury apartments on the spot that used to be a Macy’s parking lot.

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