bazaar

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"This bazaar is a great event to us, and its object is, I think, a worthy one.

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  1. noun A market consisting of a street lined with shops and stalls, especially one in the Middle East.
  2. noun A shop or a part of a store in which miscellaneous articles are sold.
  3. noun A fair or sale at which miscellaneous articles are sold, often for charitable purposes.

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  • When Joan had unwillingly consented to take the principal stall at the bazaar, he had complacently expected a succession of committee meetings and sewing-bees, which would make a wholesome interest in a life spent too entirely in self-gratification; but the weeks had passed by, and the bazaar was at hand, and so far he had observed no symptoms of work on its behalf He sat silently, waiting to glean information through the questioning of his guests I've taken part in bazaars before now. —  The Love Affairs of Pixie
  • "This bazaar is a great event to us, and its object is, I think, a worthy one. —  The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
  • In front of the bazaar is the Chyasing Deval, an eight-sided temple with multi-level porches that tapers to the top in the Shikhara Style of India, dedicated to Krishna in 1723, in memory of the eight wives of King Yoganarendra Malla, who threw themselves on his funeral pyre to burn to death with their husband, following ancient Hindu custom of sati. —  My Sinchew -
  • When Joan had unwillingly consented to take the principal stall at the bazaar, he had complacently expected a succession of committee meetings and sewing-bees, which would make a wholesome interest in a life spent too entirely in self-gratification; but the weeks had passed by, and the bazaar was at hand, and so far he had observed no symptoms of work on its behalf. —  The Love Affairs of Pixie
  • But the sensation they created in the bazaar was as naught compared with the overwhelming effect of their arrival in the Grand Hotel of the —  The Wheel O' Fortune
 

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  1. Italian bazarro and Urdu bāzār, both from Persian; see wes-3 in Indo-European roots.
 

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/bəˈzɑr/
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