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cornmarket

Definitions

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  • noun A market where corn is traded.

Etymologies

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corn +‎ market

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Examples

  • THE first public evidence of Bathsheba's decision to be a farmer in her own person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market-day in the cornmarket at Casterbridge.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • The people, now openly joined by the French guards, forced the prison of St. Lazare, released all the prisoners, and took a great store of corn, which they carried to the cornmarket.

    Autobiography 1821

  • THE first public evidence of Bathsheba’s decision to be a farmer in her own person and by proxy no more was her appearance the following market-day in the cornmarket at Casterbridge.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

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