Bazaar

Bazaar, or BAZAR (Pers. bâzâr), an oriental market-place, either open or covered, where various articles, including slaves, are exposed for sale, and where eastern merchants meet for transaction of business, as on 'Change or at the Bourse in England and France. The bazaar in Ispahan is one of the finest; that in Tabriz perhaps the largest. The great bazaars of Constantinople and Cairo are better known to Europeans. Among western peoples, establishments for the sale of fancy goods are now often styled bazaars. The name is also commonly applied to a sale of miscellaneous articles, contributed gratuitously, for the purpose of raising money for a charitable or other special purpose.