zocohttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoco_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoco, n.
First published 1986; not fully revised

zoconoun

  1. 1892–
    = souk n.; also transferred.
    1. 1892
      The Soko is an unpaved square surrounded with booths, outside the walls, where on Thursdays and Sundays, as in Spain, the market is held.
      M. Thomas, Scamper through Spain & Tangier xii. 232
    2. 1903
      Toledo—? She is at least faithful to the dead past... So she retains her old Soko, and will have naught to do with the correct Plaza de la Constitucion.
      A. F. Calvert, Impressions of Spain 96
    3. 1921
      Tangier..cosmopolitan enough as it seems to be to any one who ambles through the little zoco, has been administratively mismanaged.
      Chambers's Journal December 817/2
    4. 1924
      The minaret of the new mosque overlooking the big zoco cuts through the blue.
      Chambers's Journal September 689/2
    5. 1965
      The Gobierno resembled the zoco of a North African town except that the jewellery boxes, bundles of clothing,..and whimpering children were not for sale.
      C. D. Eby, Siege of Alcázar (1966) i. 34

zoco, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

zoco, n. was last modified in December 2024.