colportage
[ kol-pawr-tij, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tazh ]
noun
the work of a colporteur.
Origin of colportage
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How to use colportage in a sentence
These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their particular period.
The Illustrated Key to the Tarot | L. W. de LaurenceWe have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers.
History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III | J. H. Merle D'Aubign
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