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Smithfield bargain en · NOUN
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(obsolete) A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off.
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(obsolete) A marriage made for convenience, especially for financial reasons.
VVhy, is it not provoking; vvhen I thought vve vvere coming to the prettieſt diſtreſs imaginable, to find myſelf made a mere Smithfield bargain of at laſt— […]
1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 84:
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