colporteur
noun
a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
colporteurs
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pluralof colporteur.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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But mostly the word is spread by the Society's volunteer workers and colporteurs, hawkers of Holy Writ who carry Bibles, pamphlets and records by donkey and jeep, camel and subway in 123 different countries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some facts: Total number of Bibles, New Testaments and portions of Scripture distributed last year: 11,888,226, of which 7,604.625 copies were sold by the colporteurs.
From Time Magazine Archive
By far, the larger part of this total circulation is distributed by sale to individuals, through colporteurs, pastors, mission workers and others.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was with one of the Society's colporteurs that I rode through Albania.
From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham
By colporteurs, these works were sold extensively in France.
From The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan by Ellen Gould Harmon White
