salesmaster
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]salesmaster (plural salesmasters)
- (Ireland, historical) One who sells goods on behalf of the owner.
- 1847, Irish Equity Reports Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, page 399:
- The practice of country gentlemen dealing through salesmasters is always to treat them just in the same manner as bankers, the salesmaster keeping a running debit and credit account, and paying over sums from time to time as his employer calls for them.
- 2004, Kaye Cole, The Germaines: A Huguenot Family from the Irish Midlands, page 13:
- His second wife was Maria Byme,4 one of the daughters of Joseph Byme, also a salesmaster of Smithfield, Dublin.