tattersalls

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noun

A rendezvous at most British racecourses, provided by a company of auctioneers

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Meanings

tattersalls1

noun
  1. pluralplural of tattersall

Tattersalls2

nounTattersalls (plural Tattersalls)
  1. UKA rendezvous at most British racecourses, provided by a company of auctioneers

    […] the professional betting-man, who has no other occupation, and never misses a race-meeting, or a Tattersall's […]

    1857, The Irish metropolitan magazine, page 328
    3 more examples

    Tattersalls, adjacent to the County Stand, has no seating but stepped terracing and a large tarmac area down to the rails.

    2004, Sports Ticket

    In Manchester the Post Office Hotel was its equivalent to Tattersalls, with entry likewise by subscription but a distinct absence of gentry and aristocratic members […]

    2006, J. A. Mangan, A sport-loving society: Victorian and Edwardian middle-class England at play

    For three pounds you get a badge — a brown, green, yellow and white shield — that admits you to the grand stand, Tattersalls and the paddock, […]

    2006, Robert Lynd, The Sporting Life And Other Trifles

Origin

From the name of a famous horse market in London, established in 1766 by Richard Tattersall, also used as the headquarters of credit betting on English horse races.

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APA

tattersalls. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tattersalls

MLA

“tattersalls.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tattersalls. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tattersalls,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tattersalls.

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