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medicine shop

noun

  1. (in Malaysia) a Chinese chemist's shop where traditional herbs are sold as well as modern drugs. It is not, however, a dispensary for prescribed medicines

“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 also photos of Epstein throughout the years - from his private jet to a random Asian medicine shop, and him embracing women whose faces were redacted.

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Based on the number of local L.A. content creators that have visited Tian Xiang — a small, nondescript herbal medicine shop in Los Angeles’ Chinatown — you might think it’s the single best Chinese pharmacy in Los Angeles.

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Scientists’ fascination with G. blacki began in 1935, when anthropologist Gustav von Koenigswald spotted what was being sold as a “dragon tooth” in a Hong Kong traditional medicine shop.

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Empty palm tree-lined roads led to a mall where a karaoke lounge, a birds-nest museum and a herbal medicine shop were among the outlets shuttered.

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The mythology published on the Kentucky for Kentucky website claims that same bear was stuffed back in the ’80s and moved from a park’s recreation center to a storage facility to a pawnshop to the possession of a country musician who may or may not have been Waylon Jennings — a spokesman for the country music legend’s son told the Wall Street Journal that Jennings never purchased a taxidermied bear — to his friend Ron Thompson and then to a traditional Chinese medicine shop.

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