commercial traveler

noun

First recorded in 1800–10

Twenty paces from Benvenew the road forked, and the commercial traveler had not the slightest idea which path to take.

I am also intimate with a French commercial traveler, incredibly ignorant, but extremely good-natured and gentlemanly.

Mr. Towne was a commercial traveler, always "on the road," as he would say, for a large furniture establishment in New York.

She's decided to marry the commercial traveler, I'm almost sure, although her people say he's not "steady."

A "commercial traveler" is a man who writes to his girl on different hotel paper every day.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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