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peddler's fair

peddler's fair noun: a community market where independent vendors, artisans, or antique dealers gather to sell their goods; it functions similarly to a flea market, street fair, or craft show, featuring booths that offer a wide variety of items like crafts, vintage collectibles, art, and local food.

Noun

peddler's fair (plural peddler's fairs)

  1. A community market where independent vendors, artisans, or antique dealers gather to sell their goods; it functions similarly to a flea market, street fair, or craft show, featuring booths that offer a wide variety of items like crafts, vintage collectibles, art, and local food.
    • Stage a peddler’s fair for parents or other classes. Work with students to create items to display at the fair, such as clay monkeys, tissue-paper flowers, or monkey puppets made from socks...1992, Reeves, Barbara, A treasury of whole language literature ideas, page 20
    • ...the Secession Days festivities, which include a parade of cars, a children’s parade, a chili cook-off, a peddler’s fair and several other events.1997, Hillinger, Charles, Hillinger's California : stories from all 58 counties, page 133

Forms of peddler's fair

pluralpeddler's fairs

Origin of peddler's fair

From peddler + s + fair.

Questions about peddler's fair

What does peddler's fair mean?
Peddler's fair means a community market where independent vendors, artisans, or antique dealers gather to sell their goods; it functions similarly to a flea market, street fair, or craft show, featuring booths that offer a wide variety of items like crafts, vintage collectibles, art, and local food.
What part of speech is peddler's fair?
Peddler's fair is a noun.
What is the plural of peddler's fair?
The plural of peddler's fair is peddler's fairs.

Words near peddler's fair in the dictionary

  1. peddle one's ass
  2. peddle out
  3. peddled
  4. peddled one's ass
  5. peddler
  6. peddler's fair
  7. peddleress
  8. peddleresses
  9. peddleries
  10. peddlers
  11. peddlery

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