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jumble sale

noun

British.


jumble sale

noun

  1. a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity US and Canadian equivalentrummage sale
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of jumble sale1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.

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They’d found a piece of fabric in a jumble sale together.

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More than a century later, the book was found among a pile of books at a charity jumble sale by Cindie Raven in Dorset.

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Charity shops and jumble sales have long offered a reliable way to extend the life of clothes.

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He unwittingly releases a drift of pigs from a house and later comes across an elegant jumble sale of a man who wields his walking stick like a “conductor’s baton.”

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