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1888

A "Slaughter Sale" of dry goods or a "Slaughter Sale of Babies' Buggies" were startling announcements over shop windows; these were, I found, the terms used for clearing sales, dry goods, meaning silks, muslin, &c; babies buggies an Americanism for children's perambulators.