bezesteen

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noun

A bazaar.

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Meanings

nounbezesteen (plural bezesteens)

plural bezesteens · alternative bezestein

  1. obsoleteA bazaar.

    And as I looked, she also turned to view / Me lingering loitering near the Bezesteen; / The mart where women of all shade and hue, / Stand ready for a purchaser, at e'en.

    1875, Seraphael, Mejnoun's Memoirs, an Autobiography of Love, Travel, and Romance (page 63)
    1 more example

    […] he wanders in the mazes of the Bezesteen; the secretest gardens of the old seraglio are open to him; and then, suddenly, by the charming irrationality of dreams, he is transported to a town in Southern Russia, […]

    1862, George Augustus Sala, Accepted Addresses, page 77
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