street market

Definitions

A temporary public market, normally set up outdoors on certain days of the week, often, but not always, in a street. Sometimes they can be found in a car park or in a market square.

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Examples

“The backbone of the old Cockney kingdom of Lambeth used to be Lambeth Walk⟳, the famous old street market that runs parallel to the river behind Lambeth Road.”

“Buy⟳ a bog-standard one at the street market in Souk Chaaria, near the Musee de Marrakech.”

“It was not the custom of London consumers to walk⟳ any distance for their food, or any other goods. As a result⟳ of this and the inability of the London County Council to establish⟳ a single authority to regulate existing markets and establish⟳ properly regulated new ones when the need⟳ arose, the irregular street market set⟳ up in densely populated districts was a feature of the capital. In 1891 there were 112, all unauthorised, and containing 5,292 stalls, of which 65 percent were set⟳ aside for the sale of perishable commodities.”

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