colporteur

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Colporteur Szoke spends most of his time in the restaurants and cafes of Budapest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imprimeur, Colporteur, Relieur, et Libraire, Avec tous ces métiers, je suis dans la misère: Mais j’ai toujours grand soin, malgré ma pauvreté, De ne peser mon gain qu’au poids de l’équité.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John

I transcribe and translate from Le Petit Colporteur de Blancheville, the chief local journal, an account of what took place.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 by Various

While she was caring for it, her father, who was a Colporteur of the American Tract Society, and her mother came and made their home with her.

From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Flickinger, Robert Elliott

Colporteur, kol′pōrt-ār, or kol′pōrt-ėr, n. a peddler, esp. one selling tracts and religious books.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various