Definition of "bazaar"

bazaar

/bəˈzɐː/

noun
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.
  Quotations
  ...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 ever beheld in Brighton.
  1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], pages 129–130