- conforaneous
- adjective /kɒnfəˈɹeɪnɪəs/Of the same court or marketplace.<ref name="OED"/><ref name="Glos.">Glossographia; or, a dictionary interpreting the hard words of whatsoever language, now used in our refined English tongue by (1656) Conforaneous, of the same Court or Market place.</ref><ref name="E. Coles">An English Dictionary: Explaining the Difficult Terms that are used in Divinity, Husbandry, Physick, Phylosophy, Law, Navigation, Mathematicks, and Other Arts and Sciences by (1676), [ page 68] Conforaneous. l. of the ſame Court or Market-Place.</ref>
In times of scarcity, wardens of the peace patrolled the city’s streets to deter the conforaneous vendors’ less scrupulous competition strategies.
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