Crossword clues for flea market
flea market
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1917, especially in reference to the marché aux puces in Paris, so-called "because there are so many second-hand articles sold of all kinds that they are believed to gather fleas." [E.S. Dougherty, "In Europe," 1922].
Wiktionary
n. An outdoor market selling inexpensive antiques, curios etc.
WordNet
n. an open-air street market for inexpensive or secondhand articles
Wikipedia
A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of bazaar that rents space to people who want to sell or barter merchandise. Used goods, low quality items, and high quality items such as collectibles and antiques are commonly sold. Many markets offer fresh produce or baked goods, plants from local farms and vintage clothes. Renters of the flea market tables are called vendors. It may be indoors, as in a warehouse or school gymnasium; or outdoors, as in a field or parking lot or under a tent. Flea markets can be held annually or semiannually, others may be conducted monthly, on weekends, or daily. Flea-market vendors may range from a family that is renting a table for the first time to sell a few unwanted household items, to scouts who rove the region buying items for sale from garage sales and other flea markets, and several staff watching the stalls.
Flea market vending is distinguished from street vending in that the market itself, and not any other public attraction, brings in buyers. Many flea markets have food vendors who sell snacks and drinks to the patrons. Some flea market vendors have been targeted by law enforcement efforts to halt the sale of bootleg movies and music or knockoff brand clothing, toys, electrical goods, accessories, or fragrances.
Usage examples of "flea market".
The rest of my year abroad was done via a Cracow fiberboard suitcase, Polish suit and shoes, and a loden coat I bought at the Vienna flea market for four dollars.
Her finger moved over Union Square, where Kate Moran had lived, and over East Houston Street, where Harmonica Man and Lem had lived, then over the Lower East Side, where Hector Ramirez and his family lived - and to the Sixth Avenue flea market on Twenty.
In the next few weeks he would get rid of the things one by one in the flea market.
As if selling the farm is but the crude expediency for the acquisition of a leased booth at the Marsena Antique & Flea Market.
On the other hand, if taxpayers had known City Hall was being run like a traveling flea market, they wouldn't have waited for Odio to be busted for corruption.
The sweat and talent of tens of thousands of clever people had vanished into a box you could hold in your hand and buy in a flea market.
They walked through the flea market amazed by the amount that could be jammed into the tiny shops and the degree of filth one street could collect.
Deals were made on the scale of the turnover of a rag-and-bone merchant in a flea market.
He touched Rossington when he and his wife were at a flea market in Raintree.
Rossington when he and his wife were at a flea market in Raintree.
I was the one that remembered the old Gypsy, the one with the half-eaten nose, and the way he came out of the crowd at the flea market in Raintree the weekend after your hearing, Billy.
She couldn't help wondering how many of the people in this room would have bought one of her own paintings if they'd stumbled over it in a flea market twenty years ago.