What does market-house mean?
Market-house means (obsolete) A building in which a market takes place..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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.
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Market-house means (obsolete) A building in which a market takes place..
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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.
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