colportage
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
1840s, from French colportage, from colporteur (1723).
Noun[edit]
colportage (usually uncountable, plural colportages)
- The distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature.
Related terms[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
colportage m (plural colportages)
Further reading[edit]
- “colportage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.