Definition of "market-day" [market-day]

• The day on which people go to market; specifically, the fixed day on which a market is held in a town under a chartered privilege. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Grumbling mightily at this intrusion on his time and dignity, the Warden of Land and Sea had no choice but to lumber over from the Alban Hills to the Circus Flaminius and submit himself to a series of insolent questions from the tribune, watched by a huge market-day crowd that temporarily set aside their bargaining and clustered around to gawk at him."
• "It was market-day, and the usual number of rogues and fools were assembled at the Cross."
• "Any market-day they may be beheld in glorious action."