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Market cross   /mˈɑrkət krɔs/   Listen
Market cross

noun
1.
A cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted.





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"Market cross" Quotes from Famous Books



... and tossed over pailings and into puddles, was too much even for the meek disciples of Jenny Wren. The poor little boys got their mothers to fasten elastics to go under their chins, and even so walked nearly half a mile round to avoid the market cross. It was no use, the manoeuvre was discovered, and not only did the youngsters have their caps taken, but were flipped violently by the elastics in the face and about the ears in doing so. As for us older ones, some ran, ...
— My Friend Smith - A Story of School and City Life • Talbot Baines Reed


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