wholesale house
Example Sentences
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From the very start, Renoir lampoons the craven cynicism of the good burghers of France, in a scene of a private banquet for the employees of the wholesale house where Legrand works.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 8, 2016
In Memphis, Tenn. one night last month, Brenton Root, 32, contract investigator for a wholesale house, went to a hotel dance with some friends and his pretty wife, Daisy, 30.
From Time Magazine Archive
With his brother and another Vermonter, Ezra J. Warner, he formed the wholesale house of Sprague, Warner & Co., which grew with lusty young Chicago.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1948 he launched Dior-New York, a wholesale house for which he designs twice-yearly collections derived from Paris motifs but aimed at the U.S. taste.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hit means you respect life like it is—like God made it—even when it ain’t what you’d order from the wholesale house.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
