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corn exchange

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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 Besant, Walter, Sir

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

Then they went into the big market, into the corn exchange, then to shops.

From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

There is a corn exchange and the agricultural trade is considerable; brushes and matting are manufactured.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various

Other buildings include the grammar school, founded in 1532 and rebuilt in 1893, a town hall and corn exchange, erected in 1866 in Italian style, with an assembly room.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various