green-stall

English

Noun

green-stall (plural green-stalls)

1. (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.