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/kɔrn ɪkstʃˈeɪndʒ/ Listen

Corn exchange

noun

An exchange where grains are bought and sold.

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Etymology of 'Corn exchange'

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"Corn exchange" Quotes from Famous Books

... banners which were carried before Imperial Caesars when they took an airing; and now emblazoned with the titles of the several structures conceived in the brain of Holker Morris and executed by his staff: the Imperial Library in Tokio; the great Corn Exchange covering a city block; the superb Art Museum crowning the highest hill in the Park; the beautiful chateau of the millionaire surrounded by thousands of acres of virgin forest; the spacious warehouses on the water front, and ...

— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... of extraordinary incongruity with his thoughts and of extraordinary intensity. A voice accosted him. He was astounded, as if suddenly awakened out of heavy sleep, to see to where he had come. He was in the narrow old ways of Tidborough Old Town, approaching The Precincts, by the ancient Corn Exchange. A keen-looking young man, particularly well set up and wearing nice tweeds, was accosting him. Sabre recognised Otway, captain and adjutant of the depot, up at the barracks, of the county regiment, one of the crack regiments, famous ...

— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson

Words linked to "Corn exchange" : exchange