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colporteur
[ kol-pawr-ter, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tœr ]
noun
- a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
- a peddler of books.
colporteur
/ kɔlpɔrtœr; ˈkɒlˌpɔːtə /
noun
- a hawker of books, esp bibles
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Derived Forms
- ˈcolˌportage, noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of colporteur1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of colporteur1
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Example Sentences
There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the Colporteur.
Will you write the tracts, or get them written, so that I may commence colporteur?
He is a colporteur, and introduces the Holy Scriptures into families to whom he speaks concerning the things of God.
Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.
He was a person of such excellent character and conduct, that he had been selected as colporteur for the neighbourhood.
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