emporium

“Bread of Angels” does take readers to March 9, 1976, the night Smith met the love of her life, standing next to a radiator in a hot dog emporium in downtown Detroit.

From Salon ● Nov. 11, 2025

“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

He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

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

The army was recruited externally by senators who were sent to the great emporia or trade-centres, even to the most remote, to contract with local princes for men and officers.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

"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 home-goods emporiums full of towels and kitchen aids — all available at a reduced price with that big blue coupon — were beacons that kept shoppers coming back.

From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 2023

Today, there are eight used-book emporiums in the Catskills town of fewer than 500 residents.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

And a lucky few embark on a future across the Pacific in Japan, where beetles are popular as pets, and are even sold over online emporiums such as Amazon.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 22, 2022

Perry was well acquainted with the workings of such emporiums, having often patronized them, and happily, since usually he found it “so relaxing” to sit quietly and watch clothes get clean.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote