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bookmen

[book-muhn, -man]

book·man

[book-muhn, -man]
noun, plural -men [-muhn, -men] .
1.
a studious or learned man; scholar.
2.
a person whose occupation is selling or publishing books.

Origin:
1575–85; book + -man
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