单词 | market day |
释义 | market dayn. 1. The day on which a market is regularly held. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market day market day?a1425 mart daya1629 sale day1840 ?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 104 (MED) Þei clepen..þe lecchour & his feere..to ioyne hem to her penaunce, þat is, to walke þre market daies aboute þe comune market bareheed in her schirt. 1436 Rolls of Parl. IV. 497/2 At every market day within two wekes. 1503 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 6 §4 It shalbe lawefull..to put theym into the Stokkis and theym so to kepe till the next Market day. 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 58 I haue seene him whipt two market daies togither. 1627 J. Donne Serm. Lady Danuers 90 Let..Travellers [look] after Faire-dayes, and Chap-men after Market-dayes. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 63 The number of People living within a Market-days Journey. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 462 Market-days are the fittest times..because the people will..resort to the respective Market-towns on these days..to buy and sell. 1786 P. M. Freneau Poems 376 But your market-day mornings we cannot forget. 1817 H. C. B. Campbell Jrnl. 2 Sept. in Journey to Florence (1951) 54 It was market day and I was astonished at the number of people who were assembled in La Place. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 141 It must have been Saturday,..Carlisle market-day. 1922 S. J. Weyman Ovington's Bank (1926) xxxvi. 412 The..Butter Cross..where..the poultry women's baskets stood on market days. 1964 J. P. Clark Three Plays 31 It is market day Awake, awake all of you! 1976 Yorkshire Evening Press 9 Dec. 11/1 Thirsk traders, already angry about Hambleton District Council's plans to move the town's market day from Saturday to Friday, yesterday protested. ΚΠ a1628 J. Carmichaell Coll. Prov. in Scots (1957) No. 1158 Manie changes betwix market dayes. 1695 J. Sage Article in Wks. (1844) I. 235 Behold the difference in Market-days, as we say. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 325 There is mickle between Market Days, Times, Modes, Prices, and other Circumstances are mutable. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi. 207 I wad not trust mysell with another look at puir Woodend, for the very blue reek that came out of the lum-head pat me in mind of the change of market days with us. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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