| 词汇 | rummage sale |
| 词源 | rummage sale. As early as the 14th century the French word arrimage, related to our word “arrange,” meant “loading a cargo ship.” Sometimes cargo from the arrimage was damaged during the voyage and warehouses held special sales of these damaged items, sales that were at first called arrimage sales and then rummage sales. Rummage thus came to mean any damaged goods and finally any goods low in quality, including the used clothing and other items sold at charity rummage sales. |
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