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Smithfield bargain
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English
Noun
en obsolete A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off. 17th–19th c.
en obsolete A marriage made for convenience, especially for financial reasons. 17th–19th c.
84 VVhy, is it not provoking; vvhen I thought vve vvere coming to the prettieſt diſtreſs imaginable, to find myſelf made a mere Smithfield bargain of at laſt—