Woolworth

[woo l-wurth]

noun

Frank Win·field [win-feeld] /ˈwɪnˌfild/, 1852–1919, U.S. merchant.

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Related Words for woolworth

five-and-ten

Examples from the Web for woolworth

Contemporary Examples of woolworth

There were these Japanese yo-yo experts who used to do exhibitions at the Woolworth.
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February 16, 2014

Historical Examples of woolworth

I came home on the Woolworth Special, that's the 5.10 train.
Roy Blakeley's Camp on Wheels
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Woolworth only tells you what you can get for five or ten cents.
Paris Vistas
Helen Davenport Gibbons
And so reassuring, too, as though they couldn't have been manufactured for Woolworth's.
Vignettes Of San Francisco
Almira Bailey
Suppose witnesses had sworn that Judge Woolworth wrote this will.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12)
Robert G. Ingersoll
He seized the keys and called central in the Woolworth tower.
The Fall of a Nation
Thomas Dixon

British Dictionary definitions for woolworth

Woolworth

noun

Frank Winfield (ˈwɪnˌfiːld). 1852–1919, US merchant; founder of an international chain of department stores selling inexpensive goods

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