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colporteur
[ kol-pawr-ter, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tœr ]
noun
, plural col·por·teurs [kol, -pawr-terz, kawl-paw, r, -, tœr].
- a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
- a peddler of books.
colporteur
/ ˈkɒlˌpɔːtə; kɔlpɔrtœr /
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
1790–1800; < French, equivalent to colport ( er ) ( colportage ) + -eur -eur
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Word History and Origins
Origin of colporteur1
C18: from French, from colporter, probably from Old French comporter to carry (see comport ); influenced through folk etymology by porter à col to carry on one's neck
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Example Sentences
There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the Colporteur.
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Will you write the tracts, or get them written, so that I may commence colporteur?
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He is a colporteur, and introduces the Holy Scriptures into families to whom he speaks concerning the things of God.
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Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.
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He was a person of such excellent character and conduct, that he had been selected as colporteur for the neighbourhood.
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