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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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the room in a trading post (def. 1) where the actual bartering takes place.
Quotations
1907
The sum total [of the furs] being arrived at[,] the amount of his outfit and supplies being deducted[,] he [the trapper] was given a "bon" on the trade shops for his credit balance.
1951
In the same way the buyer's color was an infallible price test at the trade store, where the Copper Eskimo paid prices three times as high as those the white man paid.