souk

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Lunch time in the souk is the opportunity to taste new foods.

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  • Everywhere there are shops: one tunnel-like souk, or covered market, leads into another in a confusing maze. —  The African Quest
  • I entered the souk, with its narrow little shops, the sun casting patterns on the street through the awnings overhead, but couldn't see him. —  The African Quest
  • I went up and down the souk, and was just about to give up and look elsewhere when I caught sight of him again. —  The African Quest
  • I waited until he had left the souk, and was about to follow him, when, struck by an unpleasant thought, I went into the shop he had just left. —  The African Quest
  • We submerged ourselves again in the souk,making small purchases such as any English visitors might, as well as two or three items that Holmes appeared to have ordered beforehand, no doubt through his diminutive friend with the conjoined Moslem-Hindu names. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
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  1. Arabic sūq, from Aramaic šuqā, street, market, from Akkadian sūqu, street, from sâqu, to be narrow; see Ṣ́yq in Semitic roots.
 

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