market-house

English

Noun

market-house (plural market-houses)

  1. (obsolete) A building in which a market takes place.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, “chapter I”, in The House Behind the Cedars:
      A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
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