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bazaar, bazar|bəˈzɑː(r)|
Forms: 6 bazare, -arro, 7 bussar, buzzar(r, bazarr, -are, 7–8 basar, 7–9 bazar, 8 -aard, 9 bazaar.
[Ult. a. Pers. bāzār market. It has been adopted in Hindustani and Turkish, and seems to have come into English use first from the latter, through Italian.]
1. a. An Oriental market-place or permanent market, usually consisting of ranges of shops or stalls, where all kinds of merchandise are offered for sale.
[c1340Balducci Pegolotti Merc. Handbk. gives Bazarra as Genoese word for ‘market-place’ (Y.).] 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 214 A faire place or towne, and in it a faire Bazarro for marchants. 1616Purchas Pilgr. (1864) 58 A great Basar or Market of Brazen wares. c1650R. Bacon Mirza 5 A giddy stream of people..Powring themselves from all parts to the Buzzarr. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant ix. 33 Several Bazaards or publick Markets. 1815Moore Lalla R. Introd., The bazaars..were all covered with the richest tapestry. 1863M. L. Whately Ragged Life Egypt iv. 25 Then we dive into a dark little street..it is the shoe-bazaar.
b. A market in an Oriental camp.
1803Wellington in Disp. 392 The enemy..were completely defeated, with the loss of all their bazars. 1882C. Francis Med. Temp. Jrnl. No. 52. 148 Country liquor is too readily obtainable from the bazaar even though the sale of it to soldiers is strictly prohibited.
2. A fancy fair in imitation of the Eastern bazaar; esp. a sale of useful and ornamental articles, in behalf of some charitable or religious object. Also used of a shop, or arcade of shops, displaying an assortment of fancy goods (see quot. 1889).
1807Southey Lett. from England I. vii. 82 My way..took me through a place called Exeter Change, which is precisely a Bazar, a sort of street under cover, or large long room, with a row of shops on either hand, and a thoroughfare between them; the shops being furnished with such articles as might..remind a passenger of his wants. 1816Soho Bazaar. 1829Southey Sir T. More II. 216 No Vanity Fair opened in aid of the funds, under the title of a Ladies' Bazaar. 1835Penny Cycl. IV. 76/1 Paternoster-row with its books, Monmouth-street with its shoes..are more properly bazaars than the miscellaneous shops assembled under cover, which are in London designated by the name. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 346 Milliners, toymen, and jewellers came down from London, and opened a bazaar under the trees. 1876World No. 106. 16 A bazaar is the clergyman's recognised ultimate hope when he wants to enlarge his school. 1888E. Bellamy Looking Backward (1889) v. 42 The great city bazaar crushed its country rivals with branch stores. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v., Marts bearing the name of bazaars, for the sale of miscellaneous articles, chiefly fancy goods, are now to be found in most European and American cities. 1930Economist 3 May 1008/2 A preliminary statement issued by this progressive company of bazaar proprietors reports excellent results for the year ended March 31, 1930. |