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colporteur

[ kol-pawr-ter, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-³Ù²Õ°ù ]

noun

plural colporteurs
  1. a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
  2. a peddler of books.


colporteur

/ ˈkÉ’lËŒpÉ”ËtÉ™; kÉ”lpÉ”r³Ù²Õ°ù /

noun

  1. a hawker of books, esp bibles
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¦´Ç±ôËŒ±è´Ç°ù³Ù²¹²µ±ð, noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of colporteur1

1790–1800; < French, equivalent to colport ( er ) ( colportage ) + -eur -eur
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˜yÐÄvlog 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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And the colporteur helps Vincent find permanent lodging with a farming family in Wasmes, the community he's serving.

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Art became a colporteur, a distributer of tracts, a mendicant missionary whose highest ambition was to suppress all heathen joy.

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I am the possessor of the MS. of Borrow’s Gypsies of Spain, written partly in a Spanish notebook as he moved about Spain in his colporteur days. 

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In a remote village of Spain a Bible Society’s colporteur, carrying a coloured banner, sold me a copy of Cipriano de Valera’s New Testament for a peseta. 

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As it was, the heretical colporteur had seventy-six copies of the New Testament confiscated.

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