market town
noun
: a usually small town that has the privilege of holding a public market at stated times
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The anticipation and excitement around the old market town, in pretty much the centre of England, has been rising ever since the National League side, the fifth tier of English football, were paired with one of English football’s elite clubs.
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Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright was the daughter of a local newspaper editor and his homemaker wife, a gifted dabbler in amateur dramatics who encouraged her daughter to act.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Little Ivy made the track her own when Rachael and Ady Hampshire took their two children out for a walk around Hebden Bridge—a market town in the north of England, where the couple had their first date.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Jill took videos of the market towns the van drove through, crowded with vendors.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
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Rob Tanner, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright was the daughter of a local newspaper editor and his homemaker wife, a gifted dabbler in amateur dramatics who encouraged her daughter to act.
—Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Little Ivy made the track her own when Rachael and Ady Hampshire took their two children out for a walk around Hebden Bridge—a market town in the north of England, where the couple had their first date.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Jill took videos of the market towns the van drove through, crowded with vendors.
—Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Market town.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/market%20town. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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