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manchester
Household linen, or the retail department where it is sold.
In a sentence
The towels are upstairs in the manchester department.
Where it came from
The word is shortened from Manchester goods or Manchester wares, cotton products associated with the English manufacturing city. The Australian household-linen sense is recorded from the 1840s.
- First recorded
- 1840s
- Initial era
- 1800–1849
- Where used
- Australia-wide