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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—G

Grassmarket

At one time the place of execution in Edinburgh.

“I like nane o' your sermons that end in a psalm at the Grassmarket.” —Sir Walter Scott: Old Mortality, chap. xxxv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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