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- noun Plural form of
emporium .
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Examples
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He built up a chain of cavernous emporiums with names like "The Sea of Love" and "Copacabana," where scores of women wearing little but bikinis and numbers on plastic tags waited behind glass walls for customers.
Former Sex Mogul Vows to Clean Up Thai Corruption James Hookway 2011
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The goal is to open various food and kitchen emporiums around the UK, with the first opening on February 26th in Clapham Junction.
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Design is one of Barcelona's fortés, and Gràcia's Vinçon is one of its home emporiums.
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Once an enclave of inexpensive clothing emporiums and burrito stands, it's now a crowded pastiche of ethnic cafes, peppered with stores offering out-of-print books and hand-made bric-a-brac, all colorfully cloaked within this vibrant Latin community.
Red Room: Pam Tent: Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat: Why San Francisco Is It for Me Red Room 2011
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Now he's browsing at the local Harley-Davidson dealership, among other motorcycle emporiums.
When Heaven Is a Harley Robert Johnson 2011
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NORTH DAKOTA NOT TECHNICALLY A STATE - North Dakota, that sparsely-populated bastion of meth and roadside Native American tchotchke emporiums that mostly serves as a land buffer between us and the bloodthirsty, war-crazy aggressors in Manitoba, is still technically a territory ... or something.
HUFFPOST HILL - Debt Ceiling Transforms Everyone Into 3rd Graders Eliot Nelson 2011
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And as the fans head resolutely out again, past the sari shops, the jewellery emporiums, the store selling "Islamic goods", the women in hijab, they do indeed look a little discombobulated.
Hideously diverse Britain: David Cameron's problem with immigration 2011
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Design is one of Barcelona's fortés, and Gràcia's Vinçon is one of its home emporiums.
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Much like Cinderella at the stroke of midnight, these costume emporiums mysteriously vanish once the clock turns November 1st.
Harmon Leon: Do All Closed Businesses in SF Resurrect as Halloween Superstores? Harmon Leon 2011
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The last time I mapped the nomenclature of civic and cultural Scotland's crème de la menthe, I included such cultural icons as Jim Baxter, Hot Shot Hamish and Sawney Bean, the deeply misunderstood Ayrshire cannibal who has since lent his name to a chain of high street coffee emporiums.
Great Scot, what a bunch of true heroes | Kevin McKenna 2011
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