Word Finder - bazaar

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A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.

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A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.

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A fair or temporary market, often for charity.

The well-stocked bazaar supplies the neighbouring districts.

The native quarters are well laid out, with a large bazaar for Afghan traders.

There are a busy bazaar and some old mosques.

The bazaar is small, although a thriving trade is done with the mountain districts.

It resembles the city of Kabul on a smaller scale, and has one central bazaar, the streets generally being very narrow.

On the square in front of the Bazaar were drummers beating the muster call.

The bazaar, or carsija, is a labyrinth of dark lanes, lined with booths, where embroideries, rugs, embossed fire-arms, filagree-work in gold and silver, and other native wares are displayed.

The place was modernized about a generation ago by Zia Pasha, the poet, when governor, and is now an unusually well built Turkish town with good bazaar and khans and a fine clock-tower.

The bazaar of the Franks (kissaria) was a large walled enclosure, the gates of which were closed at sunset.

After a relaxed walk around the oriental style bazaar we were taken to Samarkand School No 45.

Hiram Powers ' Greek Slave depicts a Greek woman exposed for sale at a Turkish bazaar.

Loading John's body upon a small wagon, they head for the grand bazaar, on route for the citadel.

The Magnelius Grandcourts were evidently preparing for the brilliant charity bazaar to be held there that afternoon and evening.

I have to knit some dust bunnies for a charity bazaar.

His earliest publication, the anonymous pamphlet of The Pentland Rising, had appeared in 1866, and The Charity Bazaar, a trifle in which his future manner is happily displayed, in 1868.

The bazaar is a good one, and gold and silver filigree work is made, peculiar in character and design.

It consists of the European station, with court house and quarters for the civil officers; the military police post, the headquarters of the Lashio battalion of military police; the native station, in which the various nationalities, Shans, Burmans, Hindus and Mahommedans, are divided into separate quarters, with reserves for government servants and for the temporary residences of the five sawbwas of the northern Shan States; and a bazaar.

It is a picturesque town with a large bazaar and many mosques, gardens and olive groves.

The principal bazaar, the Khan-el-Khalil, marks the site of the tombs of the Fatimite caliphs.

The dirty streets full of petty traders, the gloomy bazaar with its multitude of tiny shops, the market squares, the blind alleys, the little gates in the dead courtyard walls, all give the place the stamp of a Tatar or Turkish town.

The citadel and central bazaar of Kabul were destroyed, and the army finally evacuated Afghanistan, December 1842.

In the evening why not take the time to visit the night bazaar.

A demonstration will be taking place this Thursday in solidarity with those campaigning against Europe's largest arms bazaar, DSEi.

Episode 3 (19 SEP 84) Alright On The Night Hester has agreed to help with the church bazaar.

Khumjung would make an interesting alternative stopping place to Namche Bazar if trekkers wished to avoid the hustle and bustle of the bazaar.

To lend impetus to this, he planned an ambitious three day bazaar in the school Chapel in September 1908.

Britney Spears posed naked for the front cover of Bazaar magazine.

He was murdered in the main thoroughfare of the Bazaar in broad daylight.

He was likewise proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine; Good-Housekeeping Magazine; Harper's Bazaar; Hearst's Magazine; Motor Magazine; and Motor-Boating Magazine.

Job Charnock, the founder of Calcutta, erected a bungalow and established a small bazaar here in 1689.

But there were no dealers with voices of ingratiating affability inviting customers to enter; there were no hawkers, nor the usual motley crowd of female purchasers--but only soldiers, in uniforms and overcoats though without muskets, entering the Bazaar empty-handed and silently making their way out through its passages with bundles.

Where?... he shouted to three infantrymen without muskets who, holding up the skirts of their overcoats, were slipping past him into the Bazaar passage.

Though still half oriental, and wholly beautiful, with its Turkish bazaar, its hundred mosques, wooden houses and cypress groves, it was largely rebuilt, after 1878, in western fashion.

The other public buildings include railway works, places of worship (Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mahommedan and Hindu) and schools, an Indian bazaar, a general hospital and waterworks - the water being obtained from springs 13 m.

The town is modernized, has broad streets and large squares, and a particularly handsome bazaar.

South of the Rue de la Kasbah is the bazaar quarter.

Other noteworthy buildings are the Franciscan and Trappist monasteries, a girls' school, belonging to the Sisterhood of the Sacred Blood of Nazareth, a real-school and a Turkish bazaar.

Me (Mother) pai (go) talat (bazaar) leao (finish), or "(My) mother has gone to the bazaar."

The rich gold and silver embroidery for which the city has long been famous is still one of the notable articles in its bazaar; but the commercial importance of Iannina has notably declined since the cession of Arta and Thessaly to Greece in 1881.

The old town, containing several mosques and synagogues and a bazaar, preserves its oriental appearance; the citadel is used as a military magazine.

Of earlier buildings, the most distinguished are the Eski Serai, an ancient and half-ruined palace of the sultans; the bazaar of Ali Pasha; and the 16th-century mosque of the sultan Selim II., a magnificent specimen of Turkish architecture.

It is made of muslin, shawl or cotton cloth among the priests, merchants, bazaar people, the secretary class and the more aged government employs.

Marsivan is an unusually European place both in its aspect and the commodities procurable in the bazaar.

It comprises about Soo houses of Afghan settlers, a colony of Jews and a small bazaar, set in the midst of a waste of ruins and many acres of debris.

In the native bazaar the houses rise three or four storeys in height, with elaborately carved pillars and front work.

A regular police force was also established and a gaol built in the Bazaar.'

In 1668-1684 the great bazaar and trading hall was built, principally by Tatar prisoners.

The whole, in the time of the great fairs, when every available place is packed with merchandise and thronged with a motley crowd, presents the semblance of an oriental bazaar.

In the bazaar, which lies between the chief mosque and the sacred pool, and contains several streets, are displayed not only the native woollen stuffs, pottery and silver work, but also a considerable variety of European goods, especially cloth stuffs.

The nightmares began to take a bazaar turn.