Definitions
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- n. An open area in a town housing a public market, often on just one day per week; a marketplace.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a public marketplace where food and merchandise is sold
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Examples
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The Guildhall looked the part, the market square before it filled with a bustling, good-natured throng, the gentry rubbing shoulders with farmers and their wives, laborers and field workers, all eyeing the wide variety of wares displayed on the stalls and trestles.
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On a certain day he stood in the market square to see their first stage-coach put together.
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“We can hang him in the main market square of Bolgorka.
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