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corn exchange

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noun

  1. a building where corn is bought and sold

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A corn exchange modelled on the Halle au Blé in Paris, if not vice versa.

From The Guardian

The parish church—an old Gothic edifice, which was originally the Castle chapel, and was restored in 1852—the municipal buildings, corn exchange, Foresters’ hall and Newmills hospital are among the principal public buildings.

From Project Gutenberg

Among the chief buildings are the town hall, county buildings, corn exchange, Duncan Institute, cottage hospital, Union Street Hall and the Bell-Baxter school.

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

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The building is said to have been a corn exchange in Moorish days.

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