marketstead en · NOUN
Etymology
From market + stead.
Meanings
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(obsolete) A marketplace.
Putting their Vaward on, and their best Archers plac’d The Market-sted about, and them so fitly laid.
1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 1 p. 44:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| marketsteads | Number=Plur | lexicographic |