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From soap + -man.
soapman (plural soapmen)
- A man who makes or sells soap.
1996, Kevin Sharpe, The Personal Rule of Charles I, page 261:The crown itself derived over £ 29,000 per annum in payments and fines from the incorporation of the soapmen and the tonnage they offered.