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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Market-penny

(A). Money for refreshments given to those who go to market. Now, however, it means a toll surreptitiously exacted by servants sent out to buy goods for their master.

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