small goods
Britishplural noun
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In Beijing, Fang Wen, whose daughter studies at Rice University in Houston, said she relies on her to bring back small goods, such as cosmetics, apparel and jewelry.
From Reuters • Dec. 18, 2015
The brightly colored bags, iPhone cases, wallets and other small goods adorned with Roy Lichtenstein-esque comic art — well, they pop.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2013
People are selling small goods, like “small treats” they cook in the park, she reported, and they are salvaging materials through the rubble.
From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2010
The country was also being visited by a plague of annoying and unannounced nickel, dime and dollar jumps in the price of all kinds of small goods and services.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But through defect of goodness, it happens that certain small goods cannot, in their entirety, be possessed by many at the same time: and from the love of such things arises the zeal of envy.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
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