emporium
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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
As for the merchandise emporium, well … that’s where the credit card starts heating up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2026
“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
The door to the fortune-telling salon opened, and in walked Mrs. Annie Thayer, the pretty lady from Mr. Potter Palmer’s emporium, seeking a consultation with Madam Lucille.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
Not every community welcomed these hot tub emporia with open bathrobes.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 9, 2015
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 elder girls had accepted positions in the various emporia of the village as soon as they could.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
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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