Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place or mart where grain is sold or bartered, and samples are shown and examined.

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Examples

  • This open space beneath the town hall was formerly used as a corn-market, and so continued until the present corn-exchange was erected half a century ago.

    Vanishing England 1892

  • The farmers outside and inside the corn-exchange looked at their samples of wheat, and poured them critically as usual from one palm to another, but they thought and spoke of Manston.

    Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884

  • A gloomy man, who had been observing her from under the portico of the old corn-exchange when she passed through the group without, stepped quickly to her side at the moment of her exclamation, and caught her in his arms as she sank down.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • A gloomy man, who had been observing her from under the portico of the old corn-exchange when she passed through the group without, stepped quickly to her side at the moment of her exclamation, and caught her in his arms as she sank down.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • Some merry men were whistling and singing by the corn-exchange.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • Some merry men were whistling and singing by the corn-exchange.

    Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

  • Suddenly came along the road between the trees an old man and a mule; it was Mathurin, the miller, who had been that day to a little town four leagues off, which was the trade-mart and the corn-exchange of the district.

    Stories By English Authors: France (Selected by Scribners) 1839-1908 [Contributor] Ouida 1873

  • There is less soap and sugar and fewer candles at the grocery, less wood and coal in the wood-yard, fewer oxen and sheep in the markets, less meat at the butcher's, less grain and flour at the corn-exchange, and less bread at the bakeries.

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • It is impossible for the authorities to maintain, on their corn-exchange, the freedom of buying and selling.

    The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • a corn-exchange -- and were delighting the inhabitants of the episcopal city with Shakespeare, and the latest French melodramas.

    The Life of John Clare Frederick Martin 1856

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