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emporium

[em-pawr-ee-uhm, -pohr-] / ɛmˈpɔr i əm, -ˈpoʊr- /


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He added that it will remain in the emporium until the end of September so the public can see it.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

“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

But Dinello had gotten a copy of an educational film called “The Trip Back” from Kim’s Video, the legendary East Village emporium known for its collection of obscure titles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024

The historian named Strabo declared the marketplace in Alexandria to be “the greatest emporium in the inhabited world.”

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby

Among the clients whose kitchens Ms. Wollack has transformed into sleek cabinet emporia: the actress Hilary Duff, whose blue-paneled kitchen does, despite appearances, include a refrigerator.

From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2021

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

Not every community welcomed these hot tub emporia with open bathrobes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015

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

Not least remarkable is the long row of bicycles drawn up against the kerb opposite the aforesaid emporia, in charge of a diminutive boy in buttons, the patrons of these great shops being inveterate “bikists.”

From The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

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

Its multilane approaches are empty, its vast nearby shopping emporiums deserted.

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

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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