| 单词 | soft goods |
| 释义 | > as lemmassoft goods soft goods n. (a) textiles, fabrics; articles made of these. (b) relatively perishable consumer goods (see sense 27).Compare slightly earlier software n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > types of textile goods merceryc1300 mercery ware1377 haberdasha1529 small ware1567 tailory1610 dry goods1657 woollen-drapery1688 soft goods1798 wallflower1804 linendrapery1849 hog round1910 society > trade and finance > merchandise > [noun] > perishable goods softs1872 perishables1895 soft goods1908 1798 T. Wallace Ess. Manuf. Ireland ii. 187 There is no manufacture of soft goods, which more easily admits machinery..than that of cotton. 1833 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 5 Jan. 385/3 I could occasionally hear a detached sentence on politics..the price of stocks—soft goods. 1908 Deb. Senate (Canada) 6 May 822/1 The Ottawa river route is a cold storage route. It is not a canal route, where soft goods will perish. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 502 The value of retail sales rose by 4 per cent, a higher demand for ‘soft’ goods more than offsetting the drop in purchases of durable household goods. 1976 S. Cloete Chetoko 8 There were the usual shelves of soft goods—rolled bale after bale of red and yellow and blue materials. 2003 Investor's Business Daily (Nexis) 3 July a1 Nondurables, or ‘soft’ goods, rose a better-than-expected 1.2%. < as lemmas |
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