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nounroup sale (plural roup sales)
plural roup sales
- Northern EnglandScotlandAn auction.
Moreover, facilitated by the burgeoning secondhand market in furniture and other household goods, created through roup sales and auctions, the furnishing and decoration of much more modest households had undergone changes that were, in their way, just as significant by about 1800.
2014, Bob Harris, Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
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