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ˈmerchant-ˈstranger Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. merchant n. + stranger.]
A merchant who comes from another country by sea; a foreign or alien trader.
1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 21 Therfore the marchaund straungers lodge not out of their shippes. 1557Machyn Diary (Camden) 140 The xxiiij day of June was goodly serves kept at the Frere Austens by the marchandes strangers as has bene sene. 1606G. Woodcocke Hist. Ivstine xxxvi. 114 The elder brothers..secretly laid for him, and..sold him to a Marchant-stranger. 1641Earl of Cork Diary in Lismore Papers Ser. i. (1886) V. 200 Mr. Michaell casteel of London, merchant stranger. 1654Goddard Introd. Burton's Diary (1828) I. 125 Resolved, that the merchants, commonly calling themselves merchants of the intercourse,..shall pay..all such sum and sums of money as shall be assessed..upon them..as any merchant-strangers. 1766Barrington Observ. Stat. (ed. 2) 21 By an ancient law of the Wisigoths, merchant strangers are not only to be well treated, but tried by their own laws. |