colportage
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of colportage
1840–50; < French, equivalent to colport ( er ) to hawk (literally, carry on the neck; see col, port 5) + -age -age
Example Sentences
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The separation from the colportage was not hard on me in the least.
From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther
On Monday I went back to my colportage, but that night I was taken with a sharp attack of bronchitis, with high fever, and obliged to keep my room at the hotel.
From The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by Stillman, William James
With this, let me put an end to my "time at the colportage" for today.
From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther
The figures do not include the large sums expended annually in the colportage work of Bible and tract societies, in Sunday school missions, and in the building of churches and parsonages.
From A History of American Christianity by Bacon, Leonard Woolsey
This untrue statement has its source with a bookseller of colportage, who had an interest in spreading it around, in order to make as much money as possible by exploiting my name.
From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther
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