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market town
A town which has the privilege of holding a market; also, † a trading town.
1449Rolls of Parlt. V. 150/2 In..markettownes. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 12 Of Calicut, the moste famous markette towne of India. 1632Massinger City Madam iii. iii, Here lay..a sure deed of gift for a market town. 1715Gay What d'ye call it? i. 3 They would have burnt him at our Market Town. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 148 A small market town in the south-west of England. |