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emporium

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


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Whitehouse added: "Bye bye Ted old friend. He wasn't a dog; he was a species all of his own. He's gone to the great briefcase emporium in the sky. We will really miss you mate."

From BBC Apr. 30, 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

Like a super Applebee’s, the Cadillac of Applebee’s, an Americana food emporium made automatically bigger and better by being here.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle

He is equally a curator, collector, exhibition designer, photographer, historian, archivist and scourer of auctions and antique emporia.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2018

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

As an entrepreneur in her 20s with a Harvard MBA, she rebuffed original investors’ push to call the proposed neighborhood cosmetics emporia Marla’s Beauty Shop or the Beauty Store.

From Washington Post Apr. 20, 2016

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 Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)

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

"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

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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