carriage trade
nounDefinition of carriage trade
: trade from well-to-do or upper-class people
also
: well-to-do people
Examples of carriage trade in a Sentence
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The 11-story neo-Renaissance palazzo, right next to St. Patrick’s Cathedral and across Fifth Avenue from Rockefeller Center, remains a stalwart purveyor of luxury fashion to New York’s carriage trade after nearly a century. — Joshua Levine, WSJ, "Saks Doubles Down on Department Stores With New Restaurant in New York City," 15 Jan. 2019 Vienna was a center of Europe’s cosmopolitan carriage trade at the turn of the last century, and the 7th district around Bernardgasse housed skilled craftsmen catering to a patrician circle. — Sarah Medford, WSJ, "The Family That Has Elevated Everyday Items to Art," 29 May 2018 And over the years, several have come from the carriage trade, including the one in New York City. — Dan Rodricks, baltimoresun.com, "Rodricks: Gentle giants put out to pasture in Howard County after a life of hard work," 9 Sep. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'carriage trade.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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