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  • noun Alternative form of guildhall.

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Examples

  • Backtrack to Nguyen Trai Street, a walk of about two blocks, cross to the other side and turn right for Tue Thanh Temple (also known as Thien Hau), part of a guild-hall complex built by Cantonese immigrants in the early 19th century and still one of Cholon's most active Buddhist temples.

    Ho Chi Minh City 2009

  • The oldest extant charter of a guild dates from the reign of Canute, and from this we learn that a certain Orcy presented a guild-hall gegyld-halle to the gyldschipe of Abbotsbury in Dorset, and that the members were associated in almsgiving, care of the sick, burial of the dead, and in providing Masses for the souls of deceased members.

    The Guilds 2007

  • Their activity centered about a spired, broadly arched building: the town's guild-hall.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Conan swung the chariot toward the steps of the guild-hall, scattering nervous watchers and toppling a decorative flower stand along the way with his brisk, inexpert handling of the team.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • The interior of the guild-hall waited cavernous and dark, with a nest of bright candlelit hues at the depressed center of its floor, where the ceremony was underway.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Conan swung the chariot toward the steps of the guild-hall, scattering nervous watchers and toppling a decorative flower stand along the way with his brisk, inexpert handling of the team.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • The interior of the guild-hall waited cavernous and dark, with a nest of bright candlelit hues at the depressed center of its floor, where the ceremony was underway.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • Their activity centered about a spired, broadly arched building: the town's guild-hall.

    Conan The Warlord Carpenter, Leonard 1988

  • The oldest extant charter of a guild dates from the reign of Canute, and from this we learn that a certain Orcy presented a guild-hall (gegyld-halle) to the gyldschipe of Abbotsbury in Dorset, and that the members were associated in almsgiving, care of the sick, burial of the dead, and in providing Masses for the souls of deceased members.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Then they prepared a banquet for me, and I went with them from it to their guild-hall, where many honourable men were gathered together, both goldsmiths, painters and merchants, and they made me sup with them.

    Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

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