| 词汇 | package-goods store |
| 词源 | package-goods store. Liquor stores are so named not because liquor is sold in packages in such stores, but because of the quest for euphemisms after Prohibition was repealed. State leg- islatures did not want to offend “drys” at the time, or wanted to offend them as little as possible, and, in making liquor stores and saloons legal again, referred to them by such names as package-goods stores and taverns. |
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