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emporium

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emporium
a large and often ostentatious retail shop offering for sale a wide variety of merchandise


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But the stupid world (in the person of the boy at the cigar emporium next door) jeers at such tokens of love.
John Jacob Astor to establish an American emporium for the fur trade at the mouth of the Columbia, or Oregon River; of the failure of that enterprise through the capture of Astoria by the British, in 1814; and of the way in which the control of the trade of the Columbia and its dependencies fell into the hands of the Northwest Company.
The chief factory was established at the old emporium of Michilimackinac, from which place the association took its name, and was commonly called the Mackinaw Company.
 
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