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Grocery   /grˈoʊsəri/  /grˈoʊsri/   Listen
noun
Grocery  n.  (pl. groceries)  
1.
The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense. "A deal box... to carry groceries in." "The shops at which the best families of the neighborhood bought grocery and millinery."
2.
A retail grocer's shop or store. (U. S.)






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"Grocery" Quotes from Famous Books



... dropped behind him, and he came to Happy's Grocery with the bookshop on the opposite corner. He stood looking at his lighted windows, the lighted windows of his house, remembering a time when he and Amos had seen only a wooded ridge and a ...
— Mr. Wicker's Window • Carley Dawson

... drove on till about noon, when we stopped at a country grocery about five miles from Clonmel. As we drove up to the door, the words of an old Irish song ...
— Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison - Fifteen Years in Solitude • Austin Biron Bidwell

... recitation has its counterpart in many a group in society. In the blacksmith shop, at the grocery, in the barber shop, in the office, at the club, and in the field, we find groups of people in earnest, animated conversation or discussion. They are discussing politics, religion, community affairs, public improvements, tariff, war, fashions, crops, live stock, or machinery. Whatever the topic, ...
— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... a younger man, evidently the driver of a well filled grocery wagon. His horse stood patiently cropping the fine, hillside grass. Farther up the roadside a chauffeur nibbled a spear of mint. He had no car near him, but his costume was unmistakable. Evidently something was in the air. Somebody or something ...
— The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires - The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail • Laura Dent Crane

... the nuts have fallen, and see what proportion of sound nuts to the abortive ones and shells you will find ordinarily. They have been already eaten, or dispersed far and wide. The ground looks like a platform before a grocery, where the gossips of the village sit to crack nuts and less savory jokes. You have come, you would say, after the feast was over, and are ...
— Excursions • Henry D. Thoreau


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