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market day
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
market day
noun
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▪ Colgate toothpaste tubes arrives on market day.
▪ It's a Jul fruit market day.
▪ It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures.
▪ It was market day and there were some veterans studying the plant stalls while others studied the pub menu!
▪ The butter was lowered down on ropes into the cool depths to keep until next market day.
▪ Then he had cried one night following a market day in Hexham, for there he had seen two men fighting.
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market day

n. 1 (&lit market day English) 2 The day of the week in which a market is held in some particular location.

WordNet
market day

n. a fixed day for holding a public market

Usage examples of "market day".

Fortunately, it's market day in Petticoat Lane, so there'll be plenty of new suits to pick and choose from.

It was not market day, however, when the canal was so full you couldn&rsquo.

As the market day wound to a close, Jinna had done well for herself.

If there happen to be such plenty in the market on any market day that they cannot sell at their own price, then will they set it up in some friend's house, against another on the third day, and not bring it forth till they like of the sale.

On learning each week, on market day that the price of a loaf of bread advances three, four, or seven sous, they break out into shrieks of rage: at this rate for bread, with the small salaries of the men, and when work fails,[16] how can a family be fed?

Worn with his checked cloth cap it was the sort of outfit that I would expect an English gentleman farmer to wear on market day.