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
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Church Army mission and colportage vans circulate throughout the country parishes, if desired, with 330 itinerant evangelists, who hold simple missions, without charge, and distribute literature.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
With this, let me put an end to my "time at the colportage" for today.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
The publishers of colportage also maintain that, for their bookkeeping, it would be much harder and require much more time than with other publishers to prove how many regular subscribers there are.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
But what he published was indeed the lowest form of colportage.
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
But after they had done this, I was -- -- -- in their web, though I had never thought it possible before that I could ever engage in any kind of business with the "colportage".
From My Life and My Efforts by Gunther Olesch
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