emporium
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“For whatever is grown and made among each people cannot fail to be here at all times and in abundance,” he wrote, “so that the city appears a kind of common emporium of the world.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2025
Have you ever wanted to put a little action on a game of skee-ball at an iconic arcade emporium with locations all over the country?
From Slate ● May 1, 2024
Deshawn J. Snelson named his high-end sportswear emporium Hype Kingdom for a special reason.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
To put it bluntly, our species can’t afford another century of the principles fostered by the Disney emporium.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2023
The door to the fortune-telling salon opened, and in walked Mrs. Annie Thayer, the pretty lady from Mr. Potter Palmer’s emporium, seeking a consultation with Madam Lucille.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
As the name suggests, Center Market was the most centrally located of the capital’s various food emporia.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2020
Avila Retail has nearly two dozen specialty stores based in airports, including its Earth Spirit folk-art emporia and the awkwardly named Indigenous, which peddles Native American crafts at the Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2017
After cruising the shops and antiques emporia of Bethnal Green, we queue at the bagel shop in Brick Lane and buy five dozen for the freezer.
From Newsweek ● Apr. 12, 2015
His own emporia faded or failed, but Roberts, who has died aged 70, never lost faith in his medium, and in retirement painted scenes of Kings Road boutiques in the 60s.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2012
On an afternoon this week he was seen with beaming face buying a travelling rug and two portable trunks at one of London's largest emporia.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 by Various
Once a fringe fixture of comic-book stores and hobby emporiums, a trading-card game has become a powerhouse in the toy industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Before the interactive, make-a-mess emporiums became a reality, Robinovitz was struggling to simply get through the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
"People are hunting out bargains whether they're found in the sales aisles being well stocked by department stores, or in charity shops or other second-hand emporiums."
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2023
Next they tried a block of brightly lit jewelry emporiums, but a guard shooed them away.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2022
A thriving commercial center had taken root on the south side of the river, replete with stately brick hotels, sturdy limestone banks, and a wide variety of fine emporiums and reputable mercantile establishments.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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