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colporteur
noun as in hawker
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noun as in huckster
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And the colporteur helps Vincent find permanent lodging with a farming family in Wasmes, the community he's serving.
Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.
I am the possessor of the MS. of Borrow’s Gypsies of Spain, written partly in a Spanish notebook as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days.
In a remote village of Spain a Bible Society’s colporteur, carrying a coloured banner, sold me a copy of Cipriano de Valera’s New Testament for a peseta.
As it was, the heretical colporteur had seventy-six copies of the New Testament confiscated.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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