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mail-order house

noun

  1. a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.


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Origin of mail-order house1

An Americanism dating back to 1905鈥�10
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These outlines were sent to the mail-order house, and they sent you shoes to fit the brown wrapping-paper feet.

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But the brown paper outlines didn鈥檛 tell the mail-order house how fat your feet were on the top.

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He manipulated boxes of chocolate soldiers until they melted in his hands and then maneuvered in ranks of twelve a set of plastic cowboys he had bought from a mail-order house under an assumed name and kept locked away from everyone鈥檚 eyes during the day.

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Possibly it goes back to the Ming dynasty鈥攚henever that was鈥攐r possibly it was purchased from a mail-order house in Chicago.

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鈥淚 watched 鈥檈m come off the train in Yucca, and they looked like they鈥檇 just stepped out of a mail-order house catalogue.

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