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Country store   /kˈəntri stɔr/   Listen
Country store

noun
1.
A retail store serving a sparsely populated region; usually stocked with a wide variety of merchandise.  Synonyms: general store, trading post.






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"Country store" Quotes from Famous Books



... had escaped from the railroad at Enfield on the Penobscot, we slept a short night in a room over a country store, and took wagon the next morning for a twenty-five mile drive. At the somnolent little village of Burlington we found our guides waiting for us. They were sitting on the green at the cross-roads, with their paddles and axes ...
— Days Off - And Other Digressions • Henry Van Dyke

... plundered wildly, but not very wickedly, carried for two days a bird cage with three canaries in it; another, at the looting of a country store, filled his pockets with bone-buttons; they were only dangerous when they met reluctance in their frequent horse trades. They called at the house of a gentleman in Hamilton County at one o'clock in the ...
— Stories Of Ohio - 1897 • William Dean Howells



Words linked to "Country store" :   trading post, mercantile establishment, outlet, general store, retail store, sales outlet



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