She smelled wonderful, in a kind of department-store way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fourth Hand]

The Vanities Dare: A holiday-season department-store special.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2008] Reference

To lure shoppers to its department-store beauty counters, Est.    From Wordnik.com.  [Est] Reference

Of all Paris's department-store restaurants, this is the grandest.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Be a Gourmet in the Paris Stores] Reference

Recent government figures as well as reports from department-store chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexicana Dogfights Highflying Repo Men] Reference

Younger consumers don't want to be hostage to department-store sales staff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Est] Reference

The newer linens were still in the department-store gift boxes they had come in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bonesetter's Daughter]

This week's spate of department-store earnings offers a preview: In contrast to Macy's.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Retail-Sector Stocks, Don't Buy Wholesale] Reference

Very weighty questions, it seemed to me, not like the ho-ho-ho department-store santas.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Tepper Marlin: What St. Nicholas Taught Me] Reference

Evans Inc., the largest fur company in America, itself closed 34 department-store salons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Revolt Of The Fur Bearers] Reference

Heck, I had an off-duty department-store Santa come in the other day for an Irish coffee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through A Glass, Darkly] Reference

Online department-store sales were up nearly 18%, while their total sales rose just 1.3%.    From Wordnik.com.  [FedEx Rides Demand Wave] Reference

I've been able to get a major department-store charge card, but the bank cards turn me down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Funny-Money Pie] Reference

Pinault added to his holdings by acquiring Printemps, a French department-store chain, in 1992.    From Wordnik.com.  [Francois Pinault's Ultimate Luxury] Reference

So tall, in fact, that she was given funny looks by department-store Santas, though she was only two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tall Girls] Reference

Now he hawks Edgecraft knife sharpeners in department-store cooking demonstrations around the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercially Speaking] Reference

Claire DanesClaire Danes plays a department-store clerk who sells gloves in the upcoming movie "Shopgirl.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsmakers] Reference

Regional department-store chains Boscov's and Bon-Ton are also considered likely to give up share to Kohl's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kohl's Makes Grab for Market Share] Reference

He started his career with department-store jobs in New York City that eventually turned into management roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fond Childhood Memory Inspires a Meatball Empire] Reference

What does Neiman Marcus, the fancy department-store chain, have in common with the Gartner Group consulting outfit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaping Through The Loopholes] Reference

Still, she didn't want to feel out of place giving framed wedding photographs instead of department-store purchases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have a Merry DIYChristmas] Reference

At the oldest of the department-store trio, this no-frills place is from Guy Martin, chef of two-star Le Grand V four.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Be a Gourmet in the Paris Stores] Reference

"" You gotta be crazy '' to check it, says Rick Leto, a peripatetic merchandizing executive for a department-store chain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales From The Sardine Run] Reference

(NYSE), the department-store chain holding company that operates DSW Shoe Warehouse, also rose 73 cents, or 6.9%, to 11.25.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russell 2000, S] Reference

Mrs. Alfred Bloomingdale (Betsy), socialite, wife of the department-store heir and Diners Club co-creator; Los Angeles (1970).    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Best-Dressed List Hall of Fame: Women] Reference

On one of my shoplifting sprees I struggled with a Fred Meyer's department-store security guard as I tried to escape her grasp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case For Discretion] Reference

Specialty cards and department-store cards usually have higher interest rates than general-purpose cards like Visa or MasterCard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Card Facts] Reference

J. Murray Spangler, an Ohio department-store janitor, developed the first electrical suction-cleaning device for home use in 1907.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Appliances] Reference

But Levi's is also opening 250 department-store shops designed to "" take the pain out of shopping for dress pants, '' says Ederer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Worry About Pleat Pull And Sloppy Socks?] Reference

Metro's discount-retail unit Real and its department-store chain Galeria Kaufhof performed well, reporting a 4.4% sales increase to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germany's Metro Narrows Loss] Reference

David Tang, department-store magnate and godfather of the sensationally success - ful China Club, personifies the way Hong Kong's cultural force field is changing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Of Mao Zedong Chic] Reference

It was written by a man named Francis Bellamy in honor of Columbus Day, a holiday that scarcely exists anymore except in terms of department-store sales and parades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indivisible? Wanna Bet?] Reference

Will the same market forces that shut the doors last week on the 128-year-old Montgomery Ward & Co. doom those other department-store grande dames, Sears and JCPenney?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference