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Stores opening in rush to don items of lingerie (8)

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I believe the answer is:

pantries

'stores' is the definition.
(food stores)

'opening in rush to don items of lingerie' is the wordplay.
'opening in' says to take the initial letters.
'to don' means one lot of letters goes inside another (don can mean to wear).
'items of lingerie' becomes 'panties' (women's underwear).
The first letter of 'rush' is 'r'.
'r' going into 'panties' is 'PANTRIES'.

(Another definition for pantries that I've seen is " Larders".)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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