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plestor

plestor noun: an open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.

Noun

plestor (plural plestors)

  1. An open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.
    • At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.1842, John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, Observations on popular antiquities

Forms of plestor

pluralplestors

Origin of plestor

Alteration of Middle English *pleystow, from Old English pleġstōw (“playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place”). More at playstow.

Questions about plestor

What does plestor mean?
Plestor means an open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.
What part of speech is plestor?
Plestor is a noun.
What is the plural of plestor?
The plural of plestor is plestors.

Words near plestor in the dictionary

  1. plessites
  2. plessitic
  3. Plessner
  4. Plessy
  5. Plestin-les-Grèves
  6. plestor
  7. plestors
  8. Pleszew
  9. plet
  10. Pletcher
  11. Pletchers

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