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plural noun Navy.

personal articles of regulation issue sold to sailors by a supply officer and charged to their pay, as extra clothing.

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Origin of small stores

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby small stores

small-scale, small-scale integration, small screen, small slam, small solar system body, small stores, small stuff, smallsword, small talk, small time, small-town

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How to use small stores in a sentence

Stairways painted blue connect covered walkways stuffed with small stores selling jewelry, scarves, and ornate pottery.
Morocco's Secret All-Blue City|Nina Strochlic|August 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With the small stores I have found it economical and convenient to set aside portions for each day.
Yachting Vol. 2|Various.
Now, they have small stores where they make a display of "samples" of the different varieties of flowers.
Work for Women|George J. Manson
The twilight was closing down, but a toll-gate keeper showed himself a few yards ahead, and then a cluster of small stores.
The Loves of Ambrose|Margaret Vandercook

A few of the bowabs were seen going to the bazaars and returning to the houses with small stores of meat and other provisions.
The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885|Charles Royle
Small stores are maintained at both chalets; gasoline is obtainable at each.
Glacier National Park [Montana]|United States Dept. of the Interior

British Dictionary definitions for small stores

small stores

pl n

navy personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval baseCompare slop chest

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