entrepot

Example Sentences

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The Strait of Hormuz has been a critical trading entrepôt for centuries, a passageway between the Persian and Oman gulfs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

Los Angeles is also a major metropolitan entrepôt, and that means a steady supply of new visitors, people who want to experience a mostly invisible business — filmmaking — in a tangible way.

From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 2022

Sure, New Orleans sits near the mouth of the mighty Mississippi River and is an important entrepôt and site for export of raw materials, agricultural commodities chemicals, and petroleum products.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2017

The entrepôt of 2.5 million is famed for North Korean contraband such as blueberry liquor, cigarettes and medicinal sea cucumbers—plus frog oil, which fetches $450 per kilo.

From Time • Aug. 5, 2016

For Cairo was just at that time the busiest entrepôt in all the Mississippi Valley.

From A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs by Eggleston, George Cary