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Marks and Sparks
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English
Proper noun
en British colloquial The retailer Marks & Spencer. from 1960s
en 1961 w:J. I. M. Stewart The Man Who Won The Pools w:W. W. Norton & Company 13 He’d thought of going into Marks and Sparks, but now he thought he’d go across and into Woolworth’s.
en 1972 David Bowie Mott The Hoople All the Young Dudes All the Young Dudes And Wendy's stealing clothes from Marks and Sparks
en coordinated pairs eponyms reduplications rhyming phrases