general store
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of general store
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
Example Sentences
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His father was an assistant county sheriff, and his mother helped run her family’s general store.
From Washington Post
The trappings of the Senate were another world from Mr. Abourezk’s rough-and-tumble childhood on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, where his Lebanese parents had immigrated and ran a general store.
From Washington Post
His father, Charles, had moved to the United States from Lebanon as a peddler in 1898 and managed to open general stores in Wood and Mission.
From New York Times
The trappings of the Senate were another world from Abourezk’s rough-and-tumble childhood on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, where his Lebanese parents had immigrated and ran a general store.
From Seattle Times
The only remaining general store was operating on thinner and thinner margins.
From Salon
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