Definition of "horse-fair" [horse-fair]

• A fair or market at which chiefly horses are sold. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "No matter, he had the length of the enclave wall to tell over pace by pace like beads, in gratitude, from the corner of the horse-fair to the gates, with the beloved bulk of the church like a warmth in the winter night on his left hand within the pale, a benediction all the way."
• "I tried to get lodgings in the house, but there had been a horse-fair, or something of that sort, and it was full."
• "After all I have said above, there is no need to explain to the reader how I happened five years ago to be at Lebedyan just in the very thick of the horse-fair."