yard goods

1. 1.

   merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard

   Synonymspiece goods

   Broadermerchandise

   plural

Questions about yard goods

What does yard goods mean?

yard goods means "merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard".

What is another word for yard goods?

Close synonyms include piece goods. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yard goods a common word?

yard goods is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.