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n. (plural of department store English)
Usage examples of "department stores".
Thus it was not hard, amid the dense blue air, for credulous souls to look upon all those gasmen outside department stores as Santa Clauses and Christ children in all sizes and at all prices.
This also works with the gas and electric companies and with any department stores you conned into letting you charge.
John and Tommy had both worked for chain department stores before hooking up with Philipe.
It looked like a yard-sale reject, though Leah pulled down a good salary Jaine knew exactly how much and probably shopped at nice department stores.
Most of the buyers for the big department stores were cast in the same mould and too much experimentation was frowned on.
When Hitler rose from this witches' brew, like an oracular spook in Macbeth, and pointed at the Jews in the department stores and the opera promenades.
So now we're part of a corporation with two dozen other irons in the firefast food, Ponderosa golf, those three eyesore discount department stores, the gas stations, all that shit.
As were all the people employed on that street in department stores and office buildings who crowded to doors and windows to watch the police parade pass.
Between them ran Frederiks-borg Way, a narrow street lined with exclusive shops and department stores.
She went to one of the great department stores and bought herself one, using a dollar and a quarter of her small store to pay for it.
I walk down the avenues, past the empty department stores and movie theaters.