entrepôt
noun
a warehouse.
entrepôts
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pluralof entrepôt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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THE cliché of luxury penthouses and Gucci stores cheek-by-jowl with filth and poverty is usually reserved for poor-world entrepôts.
From Economist ● May 31, 2018
The Hanseatic merchants of earlier fur-trading days in Northern Europe had established their forts or factories at Novgorod, at Bergen, and elsewhere, great entrepôts stored with merchandise for the neighboring territories.
From Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 by William Bennett Munro
Naturally they were almost barren and of little account as plantations; but as entrepôts they were exceedingly useful, not only to their owners, but to the belligerents as well.
From The West Indies and the Spanish Main by James Rodway
The great entrepôts of Caffa and Tana having fallen into decay, all the routes leading to them were forsaken.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
Grants to rural communes to assist them to purchase agricultural machinery collectively, to acquire communal domains, worked under the control of the communes by unions of rural laborers, and to establish depôts and entrepôts.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
