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White goods

noun

Large electrical home appliances (refrigerators or washing machines etc.) that are typically finished in white enamel.

Drygoods for household use that are typically made of white cloth. Synonym: household linen.

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"White goods" Quotes from Famous Books

... more extended than its industries, although no more prosperous. In the Square and in the Calle Mayor, under the arcades white goods are sold and woollens, and there are hat-shops and silversmiths, one alongside the other. The shopkeepers hang their merchandise in the arches, the saddlers and harness-makers decorate their entrances with head-stalls and straps, and those that have no archway put up awnings. In the Square ...

— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja

... rinsed, (8) treated with bleaching powder solution, (9) rinsed, (10) treated with acid, (11) finally rinsed again. All this is done by machines and hundreds of yards go through the process at a time. The product is a pure white cloth suitable for dyeing light shades and for white goods. When cloth is to be dyed a dark shade the treatment is ...

— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson

... showed! And at a time of year when, the holiday season past, it might seem as if there could be no real summons for anybody to go shopping. They were fairly dazzling, some of them, although many of them showed only white goods. His car came to a standstill before one great plate-glass frame behind which was a representation of a sewing-room with several people busily at work. So perfect were the figures that it hardly seemed as if they could be of wax. ...

— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond

... to him and ask him if he kep surpluses, and he sez as he didn't. I told him I could rent him one to put on the minister, and he hedn't thought fer to hev it an Episcopal show, but he sed he'd do it fer an ad fer his white goods. He wouldn't stand fer no dollar a day. He beat me down to three-fifty, but he throwed in ...

— Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley • Belle K. Maniates

Words linked to "White goods" : clothes dryer, linen, washables, icebox, electric range, plural form, home appliance, wash, household linen, ironing, dishwashing machine, washer, dish washer, household appliance, washing machine, dishwasher, clothes drier, soft goods, drygoods, plural, laundry, refrigerator, washing, automatic washer