country merchant en · NOUN
Meanings
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Synonym of country store (“general store in a rural setting”).
The wrapping paper bore the name of a country merchant. The robbers had purchased material for their masks at this country store[…]
1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| country merchants | Number=Plur | lexicographic |