colporteur
English
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French colporteur, from comporteur by influence of col (“neck”) (re-analyzed as col + porteur (“porter”)), from verb comporter, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin comportō (English comport).
Noun
colporteur (plural colporteurs)
- A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
Related terms
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
colporteur m (plural colporteurs, feminine colporteuse)
Descendants
- English: colporteur, colporter
Further reading
- “colporteur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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