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单词 royal merchant
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royal merchant
royal merchant n. now historical a merchant who either conducts business with or is likened in some way to royalty, esp. in being very wealthy, enjoying high status in society, or in controlling large territories.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 237 How doth that royall Merchant good Anthonio?
1630 P. Massinger Renegado ii. iv. sig. D4v Like a Royall Marchant to returne Your great magnificence.
1717 J. Cary Ess. towards regulating Trade Ep. Ded. sig. A2v Solomon, long before Him, became a Royal Merchant, and thereby exceeded all the Kings of Earth in Riches.
1772 Brit. Mag. & Gen. Rev. Jan. 22/1 Much to the honour of this royal merchant [sc. Sir Thomas Gresham],..he not only discharged the debt, but raised the exchange, in favour of England, more than four per cent.
1832 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 509/1 Matthew Grimaldi and Franchus Grimaldi, two royal merchants of Genoa, were in England about the year 1400.
1990 F. Mauro in J. D. Tracy Rise of Merchant Empires viii. 275 International merchants in these societies did not have a complete monopoly on the economic exchanges. Besides the princes (through the mediation of the so-called royal merchants), the clerical classes also had some power in this realm.
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