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Bloomingdale

American  
[bloo-ming-deyl] / ˈblu mɪŋˌdeɪl /

noun

  1. a town in NE Illinois.


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Brothers Joseph and Lyman Bloomingdale got their start in 1872 selling hoop skirts, corsets and other women’s fashions on New York’s Lower East Side.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

The fire began Friday evening in Old Engine Company No. 12, now a landmark historic site along North Capitol Street in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of Washington.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023

Merchandise inventories at the Bloomingdale parent were down 6% year-over-year and down 17% compared to 2019.

From Reuters • Nov. 16, 2023

Among the attendees were L.A. philanthropic doyennes Edie Wasserman and Betsy Bloomingdale.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

I bent down, with a brief grunt, and slipped off one of my winter-cracked black Bloomingdale shoes.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath