colporteurn.
/kɒlpɔːˈtəː//ˈkɒlpɔːtə/ A hawker of books, newspapers, etc. esp. (in English use) one employed by a society to travel about and sell or distribute Bibles and religious writings.
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society > trade and finance > selling > seller > sellers of specific things > [noun] > seller of books, newspapers, or pamphlets > types of
bawdy-basket1567
ballad-monger1598
land-pirate1608
map-monger1639
bookwoman1647
mercury1648
second-hand bookseller1656
Bible-seller1707
map-seller1710
stall-man1761
book auctioneer1776
scrap-monger1786
colporteur1796
death-hunter1851
train boy1852
speech-crier1856
roarer1865
looker-out1894
society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > tract-distributor > [noun]
walker1846
colporteur1862
1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 393 An itinerant German Colporteur, or book pedlar.
1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 64 The hawkers of fly-sheets..like the colporteurs of Paris.
1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Colporter, a hawker; a pedler; a pedler of books.
1862 Brit. Workman 1 June The Colporteurs of the Religious Tract and Book Society of Scotland.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots in Florida in France & Eng. in N. Amer. ii. 17 Intrepid colporteurs..bore the Bible..to city, hamlet, and castle.
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