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A deliberate rejection and movement or development in a different direction..
One of this century’s stranger trends has been a turning-away from the chains – and a deliberate revival of the props and symbols of yesterday’s vanished high street.
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Turning-away means A deliberate rejection and movement or development in a different direction..
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One of this century’s stranger trends has been a turning-away from the chains – and a deliberate revival of the props and symbols of yesterday’s vanished high street.
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