merchantry

The beautiful dream of the revolution has ended poorly, and the claims have come to seem like strange bookends on either side of it: At first they were a tally of the merchantry and profiteering Castro squashed; now they’re an opportunity to let a thousand Starbuckses bloom.  

He has, in a way, made blatant rip-off merchantry his raison d’etre, which may not win him many fans among intellectual property crusaders, but does give his work a certain 21st century “unrepentant appropriation” frisson.

When St�voren town was in its prime ��And queened the Zuyder Zee, Her ships went out to every clime ��With costly merchantry.

The hookah solemnly was passed around And then the hamlet chief would speak; "Stranger, why have you forsaken home And drawn believers after you, You bear no spices, oil, or woven cloth, No jewels nor any merchantry?"

But many artists have admittedly no aptitude for merchantry.