Obs. Anglicized f. of EMPORIUM.
1607. Bp. J. King, Sermon (Nov.), 2. The renouned Emporie and Mart of the whole Kingdome.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect., Scot. (1688), 33. Dunfreis is a rich and well traded Emporie upon the River Nith.
1698. Farquhar, Love & Bottle, IV. (1728), 69. This is the great Empory of lewdness.
1774. T. West, Antiq. Furness, Introd. 15. Ulverston, the empory of Furness.