Christmas market
Noun
Meaning
Christmas market (plural Christmas markets)
A Christmas themed street market held during the four weeks of Advent.
Examples
In December 2016, a 24-year-old Tunisian drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people before slipping the country to Milan, where he was killed in a shootout with Italian police several days later.
A dementia care home in Chorley celebrated over the festive season by hosting a Christmas market, which was opened by Miss Chorley 2017.
“If we had a Christmas market now like we do every year, we would have secured the city center with bollards,” he said.
Nuremberg is also famous for its Christkindlesmarkt (Christmas market), which draws well over a million shoppers each year.
For the past few months, this column has been working on a special Covid edition of Monopoly for the Christmas market, to reflect the New Normal.
A Christmas market, a teenage idol's concert, and now a shopping promenade for tourists: for this type of terrorists there is no hierarchy of targets anymore.