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Harrod   /hˈɛrəd/   Listen
Harrod

noun
1.
English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905).  Synonym: Charles Digby Harrod.
2.
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885).  Synonym: Charles Henry Harrod.






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"Harrod" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pearl Harrod and Lucy Poole all shot ahead at the start. Agnes "got off on the wrong foot," as the saying is, and found ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill

... speculation. Professor Willis placed it more to the westward, thinking that a quatrefoiled opening or hagioscope in the screen wall of the last bay on the north side of the Presbytery (marked 9 on plan) was made to afford a view of it from the aisle. Harrod points out that there is a small hole in the vault above, from which probably hung down the light of the sacrament. The position of this hole, and the fact that such a light would necessarily be placed before the altar, and not over or behind it, is evidence that ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich - A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See • C. H. B. Quennell

... incompetent satellites, whose duty it was to keep all upstairs extensions turned off and receive calls below. Only two months before I had been the victim of their culpable neglect, when I was forced to have an altercation with a man at Harrod's Stores, who seemed pained because I declined to take an interest in some idiotic remark he was ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Harrod" :   merchant, Charles Henry Harrod, merchandiser, Charles Digby Harrod



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