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sidewalk sale

American  

noun

  1. a sale, often held annually, as at the end of each summer, in which merchants display reduced-price merchandise on the sidewalks in front of their stores.


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At least 65 vendors are setting up around Dupont Circle on Saturday afternoon, turning Connecticut Avenue, P Street and 17th Street NW into the city’s biggest sidewalk sale.

From Washington Post Dec. 1, 2021

We meet her as she’s selling all her things in a sidewalk sale to prepare to move to a retirement village in Georgia.

From Washington Times May 9, 2019

“Perhaps the most moving work in the show,” Knight says, “is the simplest — an awkwardly affecting group of 30 joyfully glazed, kiln-fired ceramic ‘Ugly Pots,’ set out as if for sidewalk sale.

From Los Angeles Times May 6, 2018

Aug. 6, sidewalk sale and entertainment, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

From Seattle Times Jul. 28, 2016

The only fat doll I had was a white baby doll that I got from a sidewalk sale.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan

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