small stores
personal articles of regulation issue sold to sailors by a supply officer and charged to their pay, as extra clothing.
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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.
With the small stores I have found it economical and convenient to set aside portions for each day.
Yachting Vol. 2 | Various.Now, they have small stores where they make a display of "samples" of the different varieties of flowers.
Work for Women | George J. MansonThe twilight was closing down, but a toll-gate keeper showed himself a few yards ahead, and then a cluster of small stores.
The Loves of Ambrose | Margaret VandercookA few of the bowabs were seen going to the bazaars and returning to the houses with small stores of meat and other provisions.
The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 | Charles Royle
small stores are maintained at both chalets; gasoline is obtainable at each.
Glacier National Park [Montana] | United States Dept. of the Interior
British Dictionary definitions for small stores
navy personal items, such as clothing, sold aboard ship or at a naval base: Compare slop chest
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