A flea market is the open market of old and used treasures at tiny prices. Browse a flea market, a Sunday flea market, found at a flea market.
It is second-hand rather than new, outdoors as often as not, and priced by haggling — which is the whole pleasure of it. Dealers arrive at dawn and the good things are gone by nine. The name is a translation of the French for market of fleas, from the state of the goods.
1nounflea marketAn open market selling second-hand goods cheaply.
“I found this old lamp for two euros at a flea market in Paris.”
flea market is a market.
A translation of French marche aux puces, market of fleas, from the condition of the second-hand goods sold there.
French
marché aux puces
English, today
flea market
French marché aux puces.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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