English Explanatory Dictionary

colportage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

colportage colportages

Etymology

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

Related words

colporter colporteur
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