Definitions
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- noun A type of
market cross associated withEnglish market towns and dating frommediaeval times; fresh marketproduce was laid out and displayed on the circular stepped bases of the cross.
Etymologies
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butter + cross
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Examples
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You also get a photograph of the village's buttercross and information on its traditional Easter Monday bottle kicking and hare pie scrambling.
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So he rode till he came into the town when the fair morning was still young, the first mass over, and maids gathered about the fountain amidst the market-place, and two or three dames sitting under the buttercross.
The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865
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