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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

She began to lean into her carefully curated emporium as the vivacious backdrop it is.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 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

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

As the name suggests, Center Market was the most centrally located of the capital’s various food emporia.

From Washington Post Jul. 18, 2020

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

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

There were, however, no emporia or places either rich through the arts of peace, or formidable for the mechanism of war.

From The Coinages of the Channel Islands by Lowsley, B.

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

While he pursued a series of ventures, including an ill-fated chain of massage emporiums called the Great American Backrub Store, his most successful business was the Learning Annex.

From New York Times Feb. 4, 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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