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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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He became a regular in the past year, and brought his friend Reyna Rabeau to the sidewalk sale.

From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022

There will also be a costume contest, face painting, a sidewalk sale, a “Thriller” dance workshop and performances by El Vez, Teatro ZinZanni, SANCA’s Circus Circus and Lelavision.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 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

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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