Antedating of Flea Market

[Douglas G. Wilson]

> Possibly a calque of "march� aux puces"? I always assumed the
> borrowing went in the other direction.
>
>
Here is the earliest clearly-dated example of "Marché aux Puces" which I
see at Google Books (1898):

http://books.google.com/books?id=wn1WAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA300&dq=%22march%C3%A9+aux+puces%22+date:1700-1900&lr=&num=100&as_brr=3#PPA300,M1

There is also "Foire aux Puces".

-- Doug Wilson

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