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Definition of Market cross
1. Noun. A cross-shaped monument set up in the marketplace of a town where public business is often conducted.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Market Cross
Literary usage of Market cross
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1908)
"The market cross of Aberdeen THE market cross of Aberdeen, the finest and best
preserved of all the seventeenth century market crosses of Scotland, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(For the buildings, see City Cross and market cross, below ; Cross of Queen Eleanor.
... market cross. Same as City Cross ; the term arising from the common ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1852)
"In most of these towns the cross has disappeared, and in its place a ball or
globe has been mounted on the shaft ; but the term “ market-cross “ is still in ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The simpler kind of Scottish market-cross consisted of a shaft of stone, standing
on a ... A new market-cross was then erected farther down the street, ..."
5. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"He was denounced, caught, hurried before the town magistrates, and having'confessed,
was fastened hand and foot to the market cross. There, from two o'clock ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1892)
"318, and see under Executioner; convoying them out of town, see under Convoy;
denouncing them, see under market cross ; dismembering of, see under Execution ..."
7. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1900)
"There can, of course, be no doubt that the market-cross had its origin in the
cross ecclesiastical, and that it was erected in the centre of traffic with ..."
8. History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps: A Complete Record of the by Josiah Rhinehart Sypher (1865)
"PENINSULAR CAMPAIGN—NEW market cross ROADS. Designs of the enemy—Trent's ...
He names it, in his report, the " Battle of New market cross roads. ..."
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