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Definition of pedlar in English: pedlarnoun ˈpɛdləˈpɛdlər British 1A person who goes from place to place selling small items. the visit of the pedlar to Irish country houses was a very special event in the lives of children in the 1950s Example sentencesExamples - Prices were partly determined by the efficiency of merchants, traders, and peddlers, as we will see in the next section.
- In 1929 she had the property covered and the dealers, the clothes traders, the second-hand merchants, the knick-knack sellers, the peddlers, were out of the rain, and so were the customers.
- Itinerant peddlers took rags and bones from customers in trade for manufactured goods.
- First-generation Greeks who were fruit and vegetable peddlers became owners of grocery stores; flower vendors opened florist shops.
- He said: ‘A lot of pedlars are unlicenced and you don't know how genuine they are or where the merchandise has come from.
- Before then, buying and selling occurred through fairs, market-stalls, artisans' workshops, or itinerant pedlars.
- At an age when other kids play with toys, he was a street peddler of peanuts and a shoe-shiner.
- Is it that different from the travelling pedlar who hawked his wares warning that he wouldn't be there tomorrow?
- Sometimes women worked as cooks or as itinerant peddlers of small goods on the street.
- Writing in 1929, Paynter recalled an itinerant pedlar who had visited fairs around East Cornwall almost two decades previously.
- The interior of Port Rand was a veritable rat race of peasants and merchant peddlers, who constantly roamed the streets.
- The peddler was a middle-aged woman who is always happy to talk with travellers.
- Others dealt with hucksters, peddlers who accepted chestnuts and other goods in exchange for merchandise.
- Even as late as the second half of the nineteenth century, glasses were provided by itinerant pedlars.
- They came as sailors, pedlars, traders of all sorts, cloth merchants, spice dealers, preachers, teachers and sometimes all of the above in a single lifetime.
- Some have been forced to find work as street musicians, peddlers and beggars.
- The city streets were filled with peddlers and merchants shouting and trying to attract customers.
- Fiercely independent, many Indians preferred to set up their own businesses, as street pedlars, entertainers and fortune-tellers.
- Disguised as a travelling pedlar or tailor and his wife, they eventually reach Germany.
- Take the look on the face of the young wife whose husband is thinking of the price of the cloth a pedlar is showing her.
Synonyms travelling salesman, door-to-door salesman street trader British barrow boy West Indian higgler British informal fly-pitcher dated hawker archaic chapman, packman rare huckster, crier, colporteur trafficker, dealer informal pusher 2 variant spelling of peddler (sense 1)
Derivatives noun ˈpɛdləriˈpɛdləri mass nounarchaic The action of travelling from place to place in order to sell small items. they turned to pedlary when winter prevented them from working their frozen land
Origin Middle English: perhaps an alteration of synonymous dialect pedder, apparently from dialect ped 'pannier'. Definition of pedlar in US English: pedlarnounˈpedlərˈpɛdlər British variant spelling of peddler Synonyms travelling salesman, door-to-door salesman
Origin Middle English: perhaps an alteration of synonymous dialect pedder, apparently from dialect ped ‘pannier’. |