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market-houses

market-houses is the plural of market-house.

Meaning of market-house

Noun

market-house (plural market-houses)

  1. (obsolete) A building in which a market takes place.
    • A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC

Questions about market-houses

What is market-houses the plural of?
Market-houses is the plural of market-house.

Words near market-houses in the dictionary

  1. market-garden
  2. market-gardens
  3. market-goer
  4. market-goers
  5. market-house
  6. market-houses
  7. market-led
  8. market-maker
  9. market-makers
  10. market-place
  11. market-places

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