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corn exchange

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noun

  1. a building where corn is bought and sold

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There are a town hall, corn exchange, and grammar school founded in 1566.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various

The play-ground bully, the swindler of the corn exchange, who is the more virtuous? dolls with life, babies with genius, which the more sensible?

From Trifles for the Christmas Holidays by H. S. Armstrong

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

Derby possesses several handsome public buildings, including the town hall, a spacious range of buildings erected for the postal and inland revenue offices, the county hall, corn exchange and market hall.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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