英和和英

名詞

market-place (複数形 market-places)

1. Archaic form of marketplace.
   • 1823 February, Nalla, “Corporal Colville”, in The London Magazine, volume VII, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 136, column 1:

     The drum ruffed, and the pipe screamed in the market-place, and away I went to see what was to happen.

   • 1855, Jules Raymond Lamé Fleury, “The Death of Don Carlos. From the Year 1567 to 1570.”, in M. C. T., transl., Historical Chapters Relating to Many Lands. Adapted for Children. Translated from the French of M. Lamé Fleury, by a Lady, London: Jackson & Walford, […], →OCLC, page 110:

     A few months after the murder of Don Carlos, the Counts de Horn and d'Egmonte, who had long been detained in prison, notwithstanding their innocence, were put to death by the cruel Alva in the market-place at Brussels, and the heads of these two patriotic martyrs were exposed upon pikes to the view of the populace.

   • 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “Go, Woman!”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 208:

     But there was no man to greet them in the market-place, and no woman’s face appeared at the windows—only a bodiless voice went before them, calling: ‘Fallen is Imperial Kôr!—fallen!—fallen! fallen!’

   • 1890, Catherine [Edith Macauley] Martin, edited by Rosemary Campbell, An Australian Girl, University of Queensland Press, published 2002, →ISBN, volume I, chapter IV, page 52:

     Thinglets fit only to wrap candles in, or make winding-sheets in Lent for pilchards, or keep butter in the market-place from melting.