green-stall

noun

A stall selling fresh vegetables.

First used 18th c.
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Meanings

noungreen-stall (plural green-stalls)

plural green-stalls

  1. historicalA stall selling fresh vegetables.First known use 18th c.

    [H]e even wiſhed her […] to turn a penny by keeping a green-ſtall.

    1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter VII, pages 157–158
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