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单词 colportage
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colportage

[ kol-pawr-tij, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tazh ]
/ ˈkɒlˌpɔr tɪdʒ, -ˌpoʊr-; French kɔl pɔrˈtaʒ /

noun

the work of a colporteur.

Origin of colportage

1840–50; <French, equivalent to colport(er) to hawk (literally, carry on the neck; see col, port5) + -age-age

Words nearby colportage

colpopoiesis, colpoptosis, colporrhagia, colporrhaphy, colporrhexis, colportage, colporteur, colposcope, colposcopy, colpospasm, colpostenosis
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Example sentences from the Web for colportage

  • These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their particular period.

    The Illustrated Key to the Tarot|L. W. de Laurence
  • We have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers.

    History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III|J. H. Merle D'Aubign
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