Definition of Colporteur

1. n. A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.

Definition of Colporteur

1. Noun. A peddler, especially of religious books ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Colporteur

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colporteur

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colporteur (current term)
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colposcopies
colpostenotomy

Literary usage of Colporteur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Twenty Years Among the Mexicans: A Narrative of Missionary Labor by Melinda Rankin (1875)
"Need of help—The appeal made—The case stated—Letter published by the American and Foreign Christian Union —An effort made to find a suitable colporteur—None ..."

2. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1869)
"LETTER FROM A BROTHER i» Work of a colporteur in Austria. A brother sends very interesting reports of his work as a Bible colporteur in Austria, ..."

3. Christendom Anno Domini MDCCCCI ...: A Presentation of Christian Conditions by William D. Grant, Charles Cuthbert Hall (1902)
"And no better work is being done than that of the colporteur, ... Though tolerated, the Bible colporteur has his task made as difficult as possible. ..."

4. Fifty-five Years of Active Ministerial Life by Daniel Kumler Flickinger (1907)
"1852—53—Traveling—colporteur Experiences in Cincinnati—"Everything has to be Leavened. ... I was appointed as a colporteur and city missionary, and preached ..."

5. South America: Its Missionary Problems by Thomas Benjamin Neely (1909)
"He became a colporteur and was made a preacher. He was arrested for selling Bibles and at one time he was imprisoned for eight months in Callao, ..."

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