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colportage

colportage noun: the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature.

colportage: the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature
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Noun

colportage (usually uncountable, plural colportages)

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

Forms of colportage

pluralcolportages

Origin of colportage

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

Questions about colportage

What does colportage mean?
Colportage means the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature.
What part of speech is colportage?
Colportage is a noun.
What is the plural of colportage?
The plural of colportage is colportages.

Words near colportage in the dictionary

  1. colporrhagias
  2. colporrhaphies
  3. colporrhaphy
  4. colporrhexis
  5. colport
  6. colportage
  7. colportages
  8. colported
  9. colporter
  10. colporters
  11. colporteur

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