market town

noun

: a usually small town that has the privilege of holding a public market at stated times

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Jill took videos of the market towns the van drove through, crowded with vendors. —

Bridget Read, Curbed, 18 Dec. 2024 Patole heads to a market town to buy leafy greens, then trudges down a muddy road lined with butcher shops, each a hole-in-the-wall, run by Muslim men – the Indian minority dominates the butchery trade. —

Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024 The picturesque market town is the backdrop for the four-day celebration of the best writing and books, intended for bookworms of all ages. —

Tess Foley-Cox, theweek, 28 Nov. 2024 The titular protagonist finds this out for herself after her schoolteacher husband dies suddenly, leaving her alone to raise four children in the market town of Enniscorthy in the Irish Southeast. —

Tomi Obaro, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for market town