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colporteur

/kol-pawr-ter, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-tœr/US // ˈkɒlˌpɔr tər, -ˌpoʊr-; French kɔl pɔrˈtœr //UK // (ˈkɒlˌpɔːtə, French kɔlpɔrtœr) //

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Related Words

huckster胡说八道,小贩,胡扯,炒作者salesperson销售人员,销售员,销售代表seller卖家,卖方,卖主,销售商costermonger造价师,成本贩子,造价员,造价商hawker小贩,小商贩,贩子,小商小贩

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural col·por·teurs [kol-pawr-terz; French kawl-pawr-tœr]. /ˈkɒlˌpɔr tərz; French kɔl pɔrˈtœr/.

    • : a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
    • : a peddler of books.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inhawker
Synonyms
costermonger造价师,成本贩子,造价员,造价商huckster胡说八道,小贩,胡扯,炒作者salesperson销售人员,销售员,销售代表seller卖家,卖方,卖主,销售商pitchperson投手,投递员,投标人,投诉人street seller街头卖家,街头小贩,街头卖主,街头卖艺者street vendor街头摊贩,贩夫走卒,街头摊主,摊贩
as inhuckster
Synonyms
costermonger造价师,成本贩子,造价员,造价商hawker小贩,小商贩,贩子,小商小贩salesperson销售人员,销售员,销售代表seller卖家,卖方,卖主,销售商pitchperson投手,投递员,投标人,投诉人street seller街头卖家,街头小贩,街头卖主,街头卖艺者street vendor街头摊贩,贩夫走卒,街头摊主,摊贩

Examples

  • There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the Colporteur.

  • Will you write the tracts, or get them written, so that I may commence colporteur?

  • He is a colporteur, and introduces the Holy Scriptures into families to whom he speaks concerning the things of God.

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

  • He was a person of such excellent character and conduct, that he had been selected as colporteur for the neighbourhood.

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