Hypertext Webster Gateway: "groceries"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grocery \Gro"cer*y\, n.; pl. {Groceries}. [F. grosserie
wholesale. See {Grocer}.]
1. The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices,
etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural
form, in this sense.
A deal box . . . to carry groceries in. --Goldsmith.
The shops at which the best families of the
neighborhood bought grocery and millinery.
--Macaulay.
2. A retail grocer's shop or store. [U. S.]
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