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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

As for the merchandise emporium, well … that’s where the credit card starts heating up.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 7, 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

She held open her bag and had me scoop them up like we were at a fashion emporium!

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

Commercial intercourse was maintained from a very early date between the South of India and the trading towns which formed the emporia of the spice islands, notably Johor, Singapore, and Malacca.

From In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" by C. Boden Kloss

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

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

From Washington Post Apr. 23, 2022

The dressmaker with her frilly, colorful creations draped on hooped wire, the overstuffed emporiums and their wonderland of goods, the rival general stores on either side of Main Street.

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




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