Usually means: Seller of books, religious material.
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  1. colporteur: Merriam-Webster
  2. colporteur: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colporteur: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colporteur: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colporteur: Wordnik
  6. colporteur: Wiktionary
  7. colporteur: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. colporteur: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Colporteur, colporteur: Dictionary.com
  10. Colporteur: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Colporteur: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. colporteur: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. colporteur: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  14. Colporteur: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. colporteur: FreeDictionary.org
  16. colporteur: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. colporteur: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Colporteur: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. colporteur: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. COLPORTEUR, COLPORTEUR, COLPORTEUR: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. colporteur: A Word A Day
  3. colporteur: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (colporteur)

▸ noun:  A peddler of publications, especially of religious books

Similar:
colporter, book-bearer, peddler, bookdealer, collector, proselytor, bookseller, book canvasser, missionary, promulgator, more...

Types:
bookseller, peddler, hawker, vendor, salesman, more...

Adjectives:
poor, first, pornographic, christian, chinese, german, native, young, protestant, same, little

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Similar:
colporter, book-bearer, peddler, bookdealer, collector, proselytor, bookseller, book canvasser, missionary, promulgator, more...

Types:
bookseller, peddler, hawker, vendor, salesman, more...

Adjectives:
poor, first, pornographic, christian, chinese, german, native, young, protestant, same, little



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