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デパート (depāto

  1. Clipping of デパートメントストア (depātomento sutoa, department store).
    • 1996 September 15, Mitsuru Adachi, “帰リ道その2 [The Way Home 2]”, in SHORT(ショート) PROGRAM(プログラム) [SHORT PROGRAM], volume 2 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 271:
      ここにはでっけえ(こう)(じょう)ができんだよ。あっちの()()デパート(おく)(じょう)(ゆう)(えん)()になるんだって(とう)ちゃんいってたぜ。
      Koko ni wa dekkē kōjō ga dekin da yo. Atchi no akichi wa depāto, okujō wa yūenchi ni naru n da tte tō-chan itteta ze.
      There will be a factory over here. And a department store on that vacant lot over there, with an amusement park on the rooftop. My dad told me so.

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  1. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN