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单词 market street
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market streetn.

Brit. /ˈmɑːkɪt ˌstriːt/, U.S. /ˈmɑrkət ˌstrit/, Scottish English /ˈmarkɪt ˌstrit/
Forms: see market n. and street n. and adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: market n., street n.
Etymology: < market n. + street n.
Originally Scottish.
A street in a town where a market is held; a street lined with market stalls. Formerly also (Scottish): †a main street in a town (obsolete). See also market gate n. at market n. Compounds 2.Frequently as the proper name of the street in a town where the market is, or was formerly, held (cf. high street n. and adj.).
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1539–40 in W. M. Bryce Sc. Grey Friars (1909) II. 38 Lyand within the burgh of Haidyngtoun on the est syd of the market streit of the samyn.
1594 (a1555) D. Lindsay Hist. Squyer Meldrum l. 138, in Wks. (1931) I. 163 The Squyer Meldrum Into the Market streit wes cum, With his folkis in gude array.
1635 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge (new ed.) iv. xvi. 322 They presently condemne her dead body to bee burnt that afternoone in their market street.
1636 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1871) I. 306 Ane croce [to be] built vpon the publict mercat streit in the Castlegait.
1670 Processes Kirkcudbright Sheriff Court 27 Sept. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (at cited word) [They] did carry away the complainers corn [to the] mercat street that leads from the kirk of Keltone to the Carlingwork.
1750 Pennsylvania Gaz. 20 Feb. 4/2 (advt.) To be sold by Thomas White at his house in Market-Street almost opposite the sign of the Dutch Waggon.
1823 W. Tennant Cardinal Beaton iv. vi. 131 As I was passing down the Market-street, I overheard a knot of surly townsmen.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xxxvi. 778 Their fine building on Market street is an enduring monument to the general intelligence and love of literature of the people of California.
1958 Listener 23 Oct. 649/2 Their shop was in the Market Street..a multiple grocer's on one side and a wallpaper shop on the other.
1991 P. Grescoe Flesh Wound viii. 70 What looked like a Hong Kong market street was a humming hive of suburban Canadian Chinese stocking up with the week's provisions.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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