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Famous old N.Y.C. building
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woolworth
Alternative clues for the word woolworth
- F. W. of store fame
- High street retailer once seeing value in a fabric?
- ___ Building (N.Y.C. landmark designed by Cass Gilbert)
- Pioneering shopkeeper attaching value to natural fabric
- United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919)
- ___ Building (New York City skyscraper)
Word definitions for woolworth in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also Woolworth's , often in reference to inexpensive merchandise, from the F.W. Woolworth & Company chain of "five-and-ten-cent stores," begun 1879 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Woolworth , Woolworth's , or Woolworths may refer to:
Usage examples of woolworth.
Woolworth dime stores were early innovators in this business, opening counters in most of their stores by 1910 and redefining them as an unique type of eatery.
Some Americans regularly dined on the foods of their homelands while others ate ham sandwiches at a Woolworth counter.
To Ransom's intense discomfort, Weston at this point whipped out of his pocket a brightly coloured necklace of beads, the undoubted work of Mr Woolworth, and began dangling it in front of the faces of his guards, turning slowly round and round and repeating, "Pretty, pretty!
Woolworth (of blessed memory): store brands maintained and visible across the entire country.
Well, I'd put the pearl necklace round her neck with all the other necklaces, of courseand nobody would ever guess that among the false Woolworth ones there was a REAL one!