piece goods
Example Sentences
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What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inexpensive needles, thread, piece goods, fancy notions, buttons and furbelows, even snake oil, but these were what the pioneers needed � the thousand tiny common denominators of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1941, when piece goods were scarce, Kahn took a chance on Manchester.
From Time Magazine Archive
Japan, during Depression, secured virtually the whole of Ethiopia's import business in cotton piece goods, while Italians were supplying Haile Selassie with a powerful radio station at cut rates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fixing her mouth like saying prune, she just went on studying the piece goods.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
