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sales-lady

noun

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  1. Archaic form of saleslady.

    • “I am the sales-lady who served you, madam,” responded the reduced empress in banged hair, long watch-chain and ringed fingers, who presided at the counter.
    • It describes the largest combination dry-goods store and bazaar in Paris, and shows the life of the sales-ladies and salesmen employed behind its counters, with their flirtations, trials, troubles and temptations.
    • Lillian Stubbs, sales-lady, as she called herself, stood irresolute, for a moment, behind the storm-doors of that fashionable emporium known as Dunn, Dusenberry & Co.

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