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colporteur

noun as in hawker

noun as in huckster

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Example Sentences

There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the Colporteur.

Will you write the tracts, or get them written, so that I may commence colporteur?

He is a colporteur, and introduces the Holy Scriptures into families to whom he speaks concerning the things of God.

Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.

He was a person of such excellent character and conduct, that he had been selected as colporteur for the neighbourhood.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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