mercantile paper
Americannoun
noun
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Assignats were abundant, but good mercantile paper, a notorious coward, had made itself wings and fled, and specie was creeping into strong boxes like a startled rabbit into its hole.
From White Lies by Reade, Charles
A Dutch mercantile paper lately published a list of twenty steamers in course of construction for the Japanese.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
A dandy bank-clerk, one day, having expressed a doubt as to the sufficiency of his name to a piece of mercantile paper, Astor asked him how much he thought he was worth.
From Famous Americans of Recent Times by Parton, James
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