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Bazar   /bəzˈɑr/   Listen
noun
Bazar, Bazaar  n.  
1.
In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.
2.
A spacious hall or suite of rooms for the sale of goods, as at a fair.
3.
A fair for the sale of fancy wares, toys, etc., commonly for a charitable purpose.





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"Bazar" Quotes from Famous Books



... In comparison with other geographical exploits, her journey through Abyssinia was but a trip to Margate. She had wandered about Turkestan. She had crossed China. She had fooled about Saghalien.... In her schooldays, hearing of the Sanjak of Novi Bazar, she had imagined the Sanjak to be a funny little man in a red cap. Riper knowledge, after its dull exasperating way, had brought disillusion; but like Mount Abora the name haunted her until she explored it ...
— The Mountebank • William J. Locke
... thou of my neighbour." Then Shams al-Din made the round till he had asked every one, but they all laughed at him, and presently he returned to his shop and sat down, sore troubled. Now there was in the bazar a man who was Deputy Syndic of the brokers and was given to the use of opium and electuary and green hashish.[FN28] He was called Shaykh Mohammed Samsam and being poor he used to wish Shams al-Din good morrow every ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton
... of knowledge, for the pleasanter manner of life which the town has to offer. The young girls whom one now sees about railway stations in the most distant part of the country are dressed after the instructions of "Harper's Bazar" and "Peterson's Magazine;" and they know more than their older sisters did of the difference between their own life and that of their city cousins. They are certainly not to be blamed if they long for some vocation in which they can more freely indulge their growing ideas ...
— Village Improvements and Farm Villages • George E. Waring
... the bazar. He wore a scarlet cloak, richly embroidered with gold in the style of an English aid-de-camp's dress uniform. He was attended by a janissary attached to the English Embassy and by a cicerone: he appeared to be about twenty-two. His features ...
— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli
... turbans; carrying their progeny perched upon their backs, they bring water from the wells in large gourds borne on the head; work in the gardens, and—the men considering, like the Abyssinians, such work a disgrace—sit and sell in the long street which here represents the Eastern bazar. Chewing tobacco enables them to pass much of their time, and the rich diligently anoint themselves with ghee, whilst the poorer classes use remnants of fat from the lamps. Their freedom of manners renders a public flogging occasionally ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton


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