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Smithfield

The smooth field (Anglo-Saxon, smethe, smooth), called in Latin Campus Planus, and described by Fitz-Stephen in the twelfth century as a “plain field where every Friday there is a celebrated rendezvous of fine horses brought thither to be sold.”

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