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Rummage sale   /rˈəmɪdʒ seɪl/   Listen
Rummage sale

noun
1.
A sale of donated articles.  Synonym: jumble sale.






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"Rummage sale" Quotes from Famous Books



... from the chimneys. The courtyard of the Hotel de Ville itself, where so many sovereigns have been received in state, was filled with saddle-horses and snorting motors. The discarded uniforms of the Garde Civique were piled high along one side, as if for a rummage sale. Beer bottles were everywhere. In the beautiful Gothic room, hung with the battle flags of several centuries, there are a hundred beds—a dormitory for the officers who are not quartered at the ...
— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson

... must have a 'drawing-room' or die! It is a kind of holiest of holies, too beautiful for normal occupation, full of gimcrack chairs that cannot be sat upon, and decorative futilities which give it the aspect of a miscellaneous stall at a 'rummage sale.' Such a room is very well as a withdrawing-room, its proper use; but as a room into which no one withdraws it is absurd. As I expected to keep no company, and needed no room into which to withdraw, I was able to get rid of this apartment. Moreover, in a very small house, common ...
— The Quest of the Simple Life • William J. Dawson



Words linked to "Rummage sale" :   cut-rate sale, sales event, sale



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