colportage

English

Etymology

1840s, from French colportage, from colporteur (1723).

Noun

colportage (usually uncountable, plural colportages)

  1. The distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature.

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

colportage m (plural colportages)

  1. colportage

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