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jumble sale
jumble sale
noun
US and Canadian equivalent: rummage sale.a sale of miscellaneous articles, usually cheap and predominantly secondhand, in aid of charity
Word History and Origins
Origin of jumble sale1
Example Sentences
He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.
They’d found a piece of fabric in a jumble sale together.
More than a century later, the book was found among a pile of books at a charity jumble sale by Cindie Raven in Dorset.
Charity shops and jumble sales have long offered a reliable way to extend the life of clothes.
He unwittingly releases a drift of pigs from a house and later comes across an elegant jumble sale of a man who wields his walking stick like a “conductor’s baton.”
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