plestor

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English

Etymology

Alteration of Middle English *pleystow, from Old English pleġstōw (playground, gymnasium, amphitheater, a place for a play, wrestling-place). More at playstow.

Noun

plestor (plural plestors)

  1. An open space in a village where fairs or markets were held; became village greens.
    • 1842, John Brand, Sir Henry Ellis, Observations on popular antiquities:
      At the south corner of the plestor, or area, near the church, there stood, about twenty years ago, a very old grotesque hollow pollard-ash, which for ages had been looked on with no small veneration as a Shrew-Ash.

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