emporium
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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
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
He had bought more fancy clothes from the colored emporium, she noted with pleasure, a dark suit that fit him well.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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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
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 Miss Emma Roberts
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 home-goods emporiums full of towels and kitchen aids — all available at a reduced price with that big blue coupon — were beacons that kept shoppers coming back.
From New York Times ● Feb. 6, 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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