bookstore
noun
book·store
ˈbu̇k-ˌstȯr 
: a place of business where books are the main item offered for sale
called also bookshop
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That night, Kendi was doing an event at an independent bookstore in Brooklyn Heights, where the streets were salt-streaked after a light snowstorm and white string lights glowed on a tree outside.
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Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
New clothing store heading to Girard An empty storefront on Girard Avenue, near Warwick’s bookstore, has posted signs about its next tenant: Faherty.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
Washington’s column gave me genuine inspiration and hope in sharing that bookstores will be coming to Clark and Diversey in Chicago and to Wicker Park.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2024
Amid all these changes, Bloomsbury has been able to avoid becoming a one-wizard wonder, and its titles crowd bookstore windows to this day.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 30 May 2024
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Rachel Poser January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 4 June 2024
New clothing store heading to Girard An empty storefront on Girard Avenue, near Warwick’s bookstore, has posted signs about its next tenant: Faherty.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2024
Washington’s column gave me genuine inspiration and hope in sharing that bookstores will be coming to Clark and Diversey in Chicago and to Wicker Park.
—Chicago Tribune, 1 June 2024
Amid all these changes, Bloomsbury has been able to avoid becoming a one-wizard wonder, and its titles crowd bookstore windows to this day.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 30 May 2024
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bookstore
noun
book·store
-ˌstō(ə)r
-ˌstȯ(ə)r
: a store that sells mainly books
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