Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A counter on which goods that are supposed to be remnants, or goods that have been “marked down” in price, are displayed for sale “at a bargain” or a price professed to be much lower than that at which the same or like goods are usually sold.
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Examples
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What he didn't point out was that those male sopranos in early music days were not counter tenors or even bargain-counter tenors, as featured in the works of PDQ Bach, they were castrati.
Archive 2009-05-01 Brian Clegg 2009
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And on another level it's basically a bargain-counter Hamlet.
Archive 2008-05-01 Gregory Feeley 2008
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Mr. Beef the butcher or Mr. Hat the haberdasher, life reached in, seized him, handled him, stretched him, and unrolled him like a piece of Irish lace on a Saturday-afternoon bargain-counter.
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By taking the novel in such quantities woman has brought it down to the level of the bargain-counter.
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When she saw that Mrs. Cregan was not going to speak, she looked up at the girl with a bargain-counter keenness.
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Men gamble, and women gossip and chew betel-nut; the peddler likewise shows his bargain-counter wares at the club-house.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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The bargain-counter exchange of services -- "you give me society uplift, and I will give you under-current influence," as one woman frankly stated it to another, although it may be called friendship, has no element of real affection in it, as the first one to fail in "value received" so clearly understands.
The Family and it's Members Anna Garlin Spencer
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The dishes on his table, for example, were cheap and almost coarse, and the pictures on his walls were photographs or atrocious bargain-counter paintings.
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During most of the third and second centuries before Christ there was a plentiful supply, and as a result the landowners worked their slaves until they dropped dead in their tracks, when they bought new ones at the nearest bargain-counter of Corinthian or Carthaginian captives.
The Story of Mankind 1921
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It was like snatching from a bargain-counter things that you hadn't time to pay for.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921
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