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Definition of Carriage trade
1. Noun. Trade from upper-class customers.
Definition of Carriage trade
1. Noun. Retail business with wealthy or upper-class customers, i.e. those who arrive in carriages ¹
2. Noun. Wealthy or upper-class people in general ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carriage Trade
Literary usage of Carriage trade
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris (1815)
"In every point of view, therefore, is this brief sketch of the extent of the
coach and carriage trade of value and importance, and, ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1896)
"Perhaps the carriage trade, more than any other, has suffered by the increase of
cycling. During the last two years complaints to this effect have been ..."
3. The Economic Review by Christian Social Union (Great Britain), Oxford University Branch (1905)
"The carriage trade illustrates the same thing in a somewhat different fashion.
In that industry the growth of specialization has led to a sort of reversion ..."
4. Principles of City Land Values by Richard Melancthon Hurd (1903)
"An example of the effect of street railroads on carriage trade occurred in New
York when the construction of the electric roads on Broadway and 23d Street ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee by Joseph Brown Heiskell, Tennessee Supreme Court (1870)
"TW Large and H. Johnson. plaintiffs below, this testimony, as to the'carriage
trade, was all excluded by the Court. We think what Jones said to Large, ..."
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