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suq

American  
[sook, shook] / suk, ʃuk /

noun

  1. suk.


suq British  
/ suːk /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of souk 1

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There were no policemen visible amid the crush of midnight shoppers at the suq in the oldest part of the city.

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The centuries-old suq, or bazaar, was closed this year when Gaddafi banned all private enterprise.

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Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods.

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We've already "done" Wafi Mall, which opened in 1991 and since then has virtually doubled in size, with a new subterranean "suq shopping experience" planned.

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Instead, less threatening pictures of Assad's son and heir apparent Bashar, 34, decorate billboards and shopwindows from the Damascus suq to the Mediterranean coast.

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