colportage

[ kol-pawr-tij, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tazh ]

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noun

1840–50; < French, equivalent to colport ( er ) to hawk (literally, carry on the neck; col, port ⁵ ) + -age -age

These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their particular period.

We have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers.

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