† piece marketn.Obsolete the commercial market for cloth sold by the piece (sense 4a).
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1826 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 23 Aug. The woollen cloth market at Leeds and Huddersfield, and the piece market at Bradford, all continue in a state of extreme depression.
1883 Daily News 28 Sept. 2/7 The piece market is without material alteration.