small stores


plural nounNavy.
  1. personal articles of regulation issue sold to sailors by a supply officer and charged to their pay, as extra clothing.

Origin of small stores

1
First recorded in 1830–40

Words Nearby small stores

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How to use small stores in a sentence

  • Stairways painted blue connect covered walkways stuffed with small stores selling jewelry, scarves, and ornate pottery.

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  • With the small stores I have found it economical and convenient to set aside portions for each day.

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  • Now, they have small stores where they make a display of "samples" of the different varieties of flowers.

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  • The twilight was closing down, but a toll-gate keeper showed himself a few yards ahead, and then a cluster of small stores.

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  • A few of the bowabs were seen going to the bazaars and returning to the houses with small stores of meat and other provisions.

British Dictionary definitions for small stores

small stores

pl n
  1. navy personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base: Compare slop chest

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