单词 | mercado |
释义 | mercadon. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a market, a marketplace. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > European or Eastern bazaar1588 bezesteen1656 gunge1776 souka1817 mercado1841 zoco1892 chowk1895 pasar1907 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. ii. ii. 239 In Madrid the Gitános chiefly reside in the neighbourhood of the ‘mercado’, or the place where horses and other animals are sold. 1842 N. Amer. Rev. July 91 Some [Gypsies] are occupied in trimming the fetlocks of horses... Others buy and sell animals in the mercado. 1898 Baedeker's Spain & Portugal 105 Along the E. side of the mercado runs the wide Calle de Toledo. 1961 National Geographic Oct. 504/1 These vast new mercados with clean concrete floors offer a gabble of kiosk-keepers and customers. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 14 Aug. 13/1 It does help if you go to the mercado—the central market—and pick out a Panama hat woven in a nearby cave. 1985 Supermarket News 6 May ii. 116/4 We do a good job with seafood now,..but we're not up to the selection the local mercados offer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1841 |
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