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colporteur

[ kol-pawr-ter, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tœr ]

noun

, plural col·por·teurs [kol, -pawr-terz, kawl-paw, r, -, tœr].
  1. a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
  2. a peddler of books.


colporteur

/ ˈkɒlˌpɔːtə; kɔlpɔrtœr /

noun

  1. a hawker of books, esp bibles
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈcolˌportage, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of colporteur1

1790–1800; < French, equivalent to colport ( er ) ( colportage ) + -eur -eur
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Word History and Origins

Origin of colporteur1

C18: from French, from colporter, probably from Old French comporter to carry (see comport ); influenced through folk etymology by porter à col to carry on one's neck
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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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