ten-cent store
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ten-cent store
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Only once a little water-color set from the ten-cent store.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
My walls are hung with ten-cent store art, and if I were not awfully strong-minded I could not overcome the effect.
From Letters of a Dakota Divorcee by Burr, Jane
"The prize is a box of stationery bought at the ten-cent store, so I am anxious to win it," Nora informed them.
From Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]
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