colporteur
a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
a peddler of books.
Origin of colporteur
1Words Nearby colporteur
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How to use colporteur in a sentence
There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the colporteur.
Lavengro | George BorrowWill you write the tracts, or get them written, so that I may commence colporteur?
John Brown, Soldier of Fortune | Hill Peebles WilsonHe is a colporteur, and introduces the Holy Scriptures into families to whom he speaks concerning the things of God.
Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel | John YeardleyArt became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) | Robert G. IngersollHe was a person of such excellent character and conduct, that he had been selected as colporteur for the neighbourhood.
The Huguenots in France | Samuel Smiles.
British Dictionary definitions for colporteur
/ (ˈkɒlˌpɔːtə, French kɔlpɔrtœr) /
a hawker of books, esp bibles
Origin of colporteur
1Derived forms of colporteur
- colportage, noun
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