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

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