All 4 Uses
mercantile
in
The Secret Life of Bees
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- I used to go regularly into the Sylvan Mercantile and smell every perfume bottle they had, trying to identify it.†
p. 6.3
- I hadn't known this until I was eight and she bought me an Easter-dyed biddy from the mercantile.†
p. 11.5
- I was just thinking I would love to have one of those silver charm bracelets they have down at the mercantile.†
p. 21.9 *
- There would usually be four whole things that T. Ray had gotten the lady at the Sylvan Mercantile to pick out for me—sweater, socks, pajamas, sack of oranges.†
p. 274.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(mercantile) related to economic trade, business, or or profit
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, mercantile may mean related to mercantilism.