dry goods

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun plural Textiles, clothing, and related articles of trade.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Textile fabrics, and related or analogous articles of trade (as cloth, shawls, blankets, ribbons, thread, yarn, hosiery, etc.), in distinction from groceries, hardware, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• U.S. A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun US Any product for sale that does not require special storage treatment, but especially textiles

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun textiles or clothing and related merchandise