market housen.
/ˈmɑːkɪt ˌhaʊs/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkət ˌhaʊs/ (A part of) a building in which a market is held; a small building erected in a marketplace for the use of market traders.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market building
hales?1541
market house1565
market-hall1611
1565 J. Stow Summarie Eng. Chrons. f. 136 This yeare the market house called the Stockes in London was begon to be buylded.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 437 The market house..was buylded for the free sale of the foreyn Boocher, and of the foreyn Fishmonger.
1628 in Hereford Munic. MSS (transcript) (O.E.D. Archive) IV. 749 Whereas there is a voide place under the West end of the Markethouse Staires w[h]ich nightly is defiled by disorderly people.
1693 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1822) IX. App. 94/1 The said mercat house [sc. for Irvine].
1762 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 90 A dancing-master was busily employed in the..market house [at Belfast]; till at twelve the sovereign put him out, by holding his court there.
1781 Baltimore Rec. 43 Such sum as may be sufficient to pay [perh. read pave] and Post the Market House and arround it.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVII. 102/1 A town-hall [at Witney]..with a piazza underneath for a market-house.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd I. xviii. 200 His square-framed perpendicularity showed more fully now than in the crowd and bustle of the market-house.
1936 C. Rouse Old Towns i. 17 The market house or town hall was often built on an island site in those wide streets.
1990 A. Everitt in J. Chartres Chapters Agrarian Hist. Eng. & Wales IV. 31 The precise functions of the market house varied from place to place. Some were little more than..open shelters supported on rows of pillars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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