emporium
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“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
Once upon a time, there was a magical emporium called The Body Shop.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2024
I dreamed last night that you came here to Chicago, and we rode my mule, Whiskey, past Potter Palmer’s emporium and ate fried bread on Lake Street.
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
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
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
During the reign of Constantine, it was an opulent city, forming one of the great emporia for the commerce of the East.
From Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Roberts, Miss Emma
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
Today, there are eight used-book emporiums in the Catskills town of fewer than 500 residents.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 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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