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white sale

noun

  1. a sale of sheets, pillowcases, and other white goods.


white sale

noun

  1. a sale of household linens at reduced prices
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Word History and Origins

Origin of white sale1

First recorded in 1920–25
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Idioms and Phrases

A special offering of towels, bed linens and similar goods, not necessarily white-colored. For example, The big stores always have white sales in January . [c. 1900]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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