dry goods
plural noun
ˈdrī-ˌgu̇dz 
1
: grocery items (such as tobacco, sugar, flour, and coffee) that do not contain liquid
2
: textiles, ready-to-wear clothing, and notions as distinguished especially from hardware and groceries
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web It is designed to handle four million metric tons of dry goods a year. 
Tom Page, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022 Water had worked its way into refrigerators and spoiled vegetables and meat, and into pantries overtaking boxes of dry goods like rice, pasta and cereal. Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2022 The silicone seal helps keep air out, which is ideal for storing pasta, flour and other dry goods while the rounded edges allow for easy pouring. Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022 Park-making was not an obvious career choice for Olmsted, who as a young man worked in dry goods, traveled to China, and eventually ran a farm on Staten Island. Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Born in Muscatine in 1882, Baker dabbled in a number of money-making ventures—ranging from a mail-order business for dry goods to a travelling mind-reading act—before hawking himself as a healer. The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022 Buy in Bulk Buying beans, grains, and other dry goods by the pound is a low-waste, cost-efficient way to stock up on essentials. Allison Braden, Outside Online, 20 May 2020 There are, in fact, quite a few dry goods merchants or dealers who show up in that census as partners. WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022 Son of a successful dry goods merchant, Olmsted tried his hand as a seaman, farmer and writer before coming into park design amid the grime and sprawl of the industrial revolution. Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022 See More
Tom Page, CNN, 7 Aug. 2022 Water had worked its way into refrigerators and spoiled vegetables and meat, and into pantries overtaking boxes of dry goods like rice, pasta and cereal. Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 30 July 2022 The silicone seal helps keep air out, which is ideal for storing pasta, flour and other dry goods while the rounded edges allow for easy pouring. Nicole Papantoniou, Good Housekeeping, 16 June 2022 Park-making was not an obvious career choice for Olmsted, who as a young man worked in dry goods, traveled to China, and eventually ran a farm on Staten Island. Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2022 Born in Muscatine in 1882, Baker dabbled in a number of money-making ventures—ranging from a mail-order business for dry goods to a travelling mind-reading act—before hawking himself as a healer. The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2022 Buy in Bulk Buying beans, grains, and other dry goods by the pound is a low-waste, cost-efficient way to stock up on essentials. Allison Braden, Outside Online, 20 May 2020 There are, in fact, quite a few dry goods merchants or dealers who show up in that census as partners. WIRED, 25 Aug. 2022 Son of a successful dry goods merchant, Olmsted tried his hand as a seaman, farmer and writer before coming into park design amid the grime and sprawl of the industrial revolution. Jesse Leavenworth, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1657, in the meaning defined at sense 2