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Ironmongery

noun

The merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop.

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"Ironmongery" Quotes from Famous Books

... Northlands in the County of Berkshire, Esquire, Gent, have one failing, and I freely confess it. I cannot keep a key. Were I as other men are—which, thank Heaven, I am not—I might wear a pound or so of hideous ironmongery chained to my person. This I decline to do, with the result that, as I say, I cannot keep a key. Of all the household stowaway places under my control (and Barbara limits their number) only one is locked; and that drawer containing I know not what treasures or rubbish ...

— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... seemed the nervous ganglions of the monster whose faintly gelatinous bulk filled the place. He seated himself in a pew near the pulpit, communed with his own heart and was still. Presently the ministering deacon, a humbler one in the worldly sense than Mr Marshal, for he kept a small ironmongery shop in the next street to the chapel, entered, twirling the wet from his umbrella as he came along one of the passages intersecting the pews. Stepping up into the desk which cowered humbly at the foot of the pulpit, he stood erect, and cast his eyes ...

— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald

Words linked to "Ironmongery" : merchandise, ware, UK, U.K., product, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Great Britain, Britain