Market-place

Full definition of market-place

Noun

• 1823, Nalla, Corporal Colville, The drum ruffed, and the pipe screamed in the market-place, and away I went to see what was to happen.
• 1855, Jules Raymond Lamé Fleury, Historical Chapters Relating to Many Lands. Adapted for Children. Translated from the French of M. Lamé Fleury, by a Lady Chapter The Death of Don Carlos. From the Year 1567 to 1570., A few months after the murder of w:Carlos, Prince of Asturias
• Haggard She|page=208|passage=But there was no man to greet them in the market-place, and no woman’s face appeared at the windows—only a bodiless voice went before them, calling: ‘Fallen is Imperial Kôr!—fallen!—fallen! fallen!’
• 1890, w:Catherine Edith Macauley Martin, w:An Australian Girl, Thinglets fit only to wrap candles in, or make winding-sheets in Lent for pilchards, or keep butter in the market-place from melting.