Plural of gildhall; multiple meeting halls owned and used by medieval trade guilds.
From gildhall + -s (regular plural). Major medieval cities had multiple guildhalls for different trades.
The proliferation of gildhalls in medieval cities shows their importance to urban life—a successful city needed separate spaces for the Masons' Guild, the Goldsmiths' Guild, the Weavers' Guild, etc. Each space reflected and reinforced that guild's power and status.
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