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moot hall

noun

  1. a building in some English villages where moots were once held; town hall.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of moot hall1

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Example Sentences

The top of the Moot Hall and other coigns of vantage had all been occupied by the Germans.

Since then I hear that the Moot Hall has been pulled down and its site thrown into the market-place.

Dancing, which from his boyhood he had practised on the village green, or in the old Moot Hall, was still harder to give up.

The guildhall of the town, called by them the moot hall, to which is annexed the town gaol.

Bunning was becoming accustomed to these evening visits of the Mayor to the Moot Hall.

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