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corn exchange

British  

noun

  1. a building where corn is bought and sold

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That is also pulled down, and there is a kind of square or place where there is the corn exchange: I think that there is nothing else to see.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Sir Walter Besant

There are a town-hall and corn exchange, and an industry in the manufacture of matting and in malting.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various

The town, until recently an old “Bailiwick,” is on a hill, with central market place, town hall and corn exchange.

From Hertfordshire by E. H. (Edmund Hort) New

The principal structures include the municipal buildings, corn exchange, library, public hall, and the market cross.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" by Various

Beside the classic corn exchange, it had no modern buildings.

From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

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