suq
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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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His extravagant runway shows are legendary; he once transformed Paris' Gare d'Austerlitz into a North African suq and hired an antique steam engine to transport models into the station.
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I bought my first one--a prayer rug, to celebrate my safe return from Iraq--at a suq in the Old City of Damascus.
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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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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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