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Definition of Drygoods
1. Noun. Textiles or clothing and related merchandise.
Generic synonyms: Commodity, Good, Trade Good
Specialized synonyms: Haberdashery, Men's Furnishings, Household Linen, White Goods
Language type: Plural, Plural Form
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drygoods
Literary usage of Drygoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the City of Columbus, Capital of Ohio by W. W. Munsell & Co, Alfred Emory Lee (1892)
"1848—SD & LP Preston, in consequence of fire; removed to Exchange Buildings ; FC
Sessions, drygoods, "second drygoods store south of the market- house;" ..."
2. Philadelphia and Its Manufactures: A Hand-book Exhibiting the Development by Edwin Troxell Freedley (1859)
"Bailey, Joshua L Imp. and Jobber of Am. and Foreign drygoods...213 Market Street.
Baird, John Marble Works Ridge Avenue ab. Spring Garden. ..."
3. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"452, 6 L. Ed. 690, majority holding void Maryland act licensing retailers of
drygoods. Power of Congress over commerce is power to regulate or prescribe ..."
4. Changes in Cost of Living 1914-1919 (1919)
"RETAIL PRICES OF drygoods. Lack of standardization of trade names and ...
This report upon the prices of drygoods in 39 cities in May 1915 and May 1919, ..."
5. Notes on the California Reports, Supplementary to the 1906 Edition of Notes ...by Charles Lawrence Thompson, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California Supreme Court by Charles Lawrence Thompson, Bancroft-Whitney Company, California Supreme Court (1912)
"New York drygoods Co., 8 Idaho. 74, 67 Рас. 798, if objections are made to
settlement of statement on ground that time for settlement had expired, ..."