yard goods
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Especially in geometric-patterned textiles, the artists wove the vivid colors and stripped-down forms of Postimpressionist, Cubist and Fauvist artworks into urbane, sophisticated yard goods.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2023
Her mother sold yard goods and draperies at the Famous Barr department store.
From Time • Sep. 8, 2016
Did Ross, doubling as her own clothes designer, require more yard goods and seamstresses to realize her visions?
From Time Magazine Archive
If movies are dreams for him, they are yard goods for his studio colleagues.
From Time Magazine Archive
“But who would marry that monster Yitzchak, who leaves his precious children outside like yard goods? Besides, the ribbons will look beautiful in your brown hair.”
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
