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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 201 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RETAIL , the See also:

sale of goods or commodities in small quantities to the immediate consumer, opposed to a sale wholesale or in See also:

GROSS

gross . The O . Fr. retaille, from which the word is taken, meant a piece cut off, from tailler, to cut, Med . See also:

Lat. taleare, Lat. talea, a See also:

rod, cutting for planting . The See also:

ENGLISH

English meaning appears in Anglo-See also:

French and in the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian retaglio, selling by the piece .

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