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emporium

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


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He put his usual wares into storage and turned his store into an emporium for Halloween merchandise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

Now it's a two-storey emporium, based on Deansgate, with a staff of more than 20 dedicated K-Pop enthusiasts.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 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

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

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

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

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

From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023

Next they tried a block of brightly lit jewelry emporiums, but a guard shooed them away.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 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


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