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corn exchange

British  

noun

  1. a building where corn is bought and sold

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

The sessions house and corn exchange are the 302 principal public buildings.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

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

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

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