soft goods

or soft·goods

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plural noun

the subclass of nondurable goods as represented especially by textile products, as clothing, fabrics, and bedding.

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Origin of soft goods

First recorded in 1890–95

Words nearby soft goods

soft drink, soft drug, soft focus, soft fruit, soft furnishings, soft goods, soft ground, soft hail, soft hyphen, soft in the head, soft iron
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Words related to soft goods

clothing, textiles

Example sentences from the Web for soft goods

  • He'd always been fond of the stage, that Mayor, but through bein' in the soft-goods line never could find time to go on.

    The Golden Butterfly|Walter Besant

British Dictionary definitions for soft goods

soft goods

pl n

textile fabrics and related merchandise
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