apothecary

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Instead of shelves of alcohol, apothecary drawers stocked with ingredients like goji berries and angelica root line the walls, permeating the room with their scent.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Not necessarily a designer one, but a handbag with a strong sense of itself — an acid-green baguette bag, a wicker orb with a padlock, a cheetah-print apothecary satchel.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Paleontologists first discovered Gigantopithecus in the mid-1930s in a Hong Kong apothecary where the ape’s unusually large molars were being hawked as “dragon teeth.”

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024

These forests were the grocery store and apothecary, the garment district and hardware store, where food, medicines and the wood for everything was to be found.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2023

We strolled past the featureless stone walls of the Archives, past a cooper, a bookbinder, an apothecary....

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss