bazaar
noun
a marketplace or shopping quarter, especially one in the Middle East.
bazar
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a variation of
bazaar.
Example Sentences
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Started by Harper & Brothers, the book publishers, as a sort of milady's "bazar," the magazine was bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1913 for $10,000, gained a third a in 1929.
From Time Magazine Archive
He fixed the house and street clearly in his mind, and then went back to the bazar, which he reached just in the nick of time to save his master from a terrible beating.
From Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace by Wilhelm Hauff
Sidney enjoyed himself walking about and visiting the bazar, but poor Mr Lascelles Hamilton began to be alarmed at the delay, and, strange to say, became thoughtful and silent.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
The public adopted the galleries as fashionable promenades, which became, for the time, “un bazar européen et un rendez-vous d’affaires et de galanterie.”
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Its meat bazar and its grain and pulse bazars are capacious and well supplied.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
