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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. 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 meaning appears in Anglo-See also:French and in the See also:Italian retaglio, selling by the piece.

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