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BAZAAR (Pers. bazar, market)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAZAAR (Pers. bazar, market)  , a permanent market . or street of shops, or a
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group of short narrow streets of stalls under one roof . The word has spread westward into Arabic,
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Turkish and, in
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special senses,. into
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European
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languages, and eastward it has invaded India, where it has been generally adopted . In
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southern India and
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Ceylon bazaar means a single
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shop or stall . The word seems to have early reached South
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Europe (probably through Turkish), for F . Balducci Pegolotti in his mercantile handbook (c . 1340) gives " bazarra " as a Genoese word for market-place . The Malayan peoples have adopted the word as pazar . The meaning of the word has been much extended in
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English, where it is now
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equivalent to any sale, for charitable or mere commercial purposes, of mixed goods and fancy
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work .

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