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colporter

colporter is the alternative form of colporteur.

Meaning of colporteur

Noun

colporteur (plural colporteurs)

  1. A peddler of publications, especially of religious books

Forms of colporter

pluralcolporters

Origin of colporter

Anglicization of colporteur, from French.

Questions about colporter

What is colporter the alternative form of?
Colporter is the alternative form of colporteur.

Words near colporter in the dictionary

  1. colporrhexis
  2. colport
  3. colportage
  4. colportages
  5. colported
  6. colporter
  7. colporters
  8. colporteur
  9. colporteurs
  10. colporting
  11. colports

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Adapted from Wiktionary: colporter (page history and authors); colporteur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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