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mail-order house
noun
- 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.
榶心vlog History and Origins
Origin of mail-order house1
Example Sentences
These outlines were sent to the mail-order house, and they sent you shoes to fit the brown wrapping-paper feet.
But the brown paper outlines didn鈥檛 tell the mail-order house how fat your feet were on the top.
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.
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.
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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