单词 | rag market |
释义 | > as lemmasrag market rag market n. a market selling rags; (now also) a market selling various second-hand articles, a flea market.figurative in quot. 1610. ΚΠ 1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph v. 174 I will not deny but the Minister hath some skill in botching togeather of old endes of Diuinitie, gathered out of the Ragge market of Caluin. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ i. vii. 11 The Dog and Rag Market is hard by. 1742 Ann. Europe III. ix. 504 A Dozen of Persons..came into the Bezestein of the Friperie, or Rag-Market, with an Emir at their Head. 1852 Times 18 Oct. 5/3 They were followed by the representatives of the rag-market, but their banner did not quite correspond to their name; it was the most tastefully formed of all. 1924 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 19 306/1 Years later M. Orville, by rare accident, picked up the companion spur in a rag market for eighty francs. 1998 Independent 9 May i. 11/2 Not for them the run-down streets of the balti belt, or the rag market. < as lemmas |
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