green-stall
English
Noun
green-stall (plural green-stalls)
- (now chiefly historical) A stall selling fresh vegetables. [from 18th c.]
- 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:
- [H]e even wiſhed her […] to turn a penny by keeping a green-ſtall.
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