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bussar

bussar is the obsolete spelling of bazaar.

Meaning of bazaar

Noun

bazaar (plural bazaars)

  1. A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls.
  2. A shop selling articles that are either exotic or eclectic.
  3. A fair or temporary market, often for charity.
    • ...quoting a paragraph from the Morning Post which announced the intention of Lady Anne Granard, with her beautiful daughters, to preside at one of the stalls, at a grand fancy bazaar, in Kemp Town, which was expected to be the gayest scene and the most splendid assemblage of royalty and nobility...1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages...

Forms of bussar

pluralbussars

Questions about bussar

What is bussar the obsolete spelling of?
Bussar is the obsolete spelling of bazaar.

Words near bussar in the dictionary

  1. buss downs
  2. buss it down
  3. buss-down
  4. buss-downs
  5. buss-up-shut
  6. bussar
  7. Bussard ramjet
  8. Bussard ramjets
  9. bussars
  10. bussdown
  11. bussdowns

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bussar (page history and authors); bazaar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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