corn exchange
Britishnoun
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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
Then they went into the big market, into the corn exchange, then to shops.
From The Rainbow by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
A vast corn exchange, a vaster drill-hall for the workmen—who had formed a volunteer corps—to drill in, chapels of every description, and some of really large size—all these arose.
From The Hills and the Vale by Jefferies, Richard
A corn exchange, mechanics’ institute and public hall may also be mentioned.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" 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 Armstrong, H. S.
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