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# Masquerade Dress Trade

## Definition

The commercial practice of renting masquerade costumes for temporary use, representing how consumption goods can occasionally function as capital when rented for revenue.

## Source Chapter

Book II, Chapter 1

## Context

Provides an example of how goods normally reserved for immediate consumption can occasionally generate revenue when employed as capital through rental arrangements.

## Economic Domain

Exchange

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