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Definition of Chapmen
1. chapman [n] - See also: chapman
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapmen
Literary usage of Chapmen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling by Stirling (Stirling, Scotland), Stirling (Scotland), Robert Renwick (1889)
"... and that the like practice is still continued amongst chapmen of other ...
so there seems to be evidently as great reason and need for the chapmen in ..."
2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"During the vacancy, it was offered to many churchmen, (or chapmen, shall I say?)
but 1 [Heton was much condemned for assenting to the alienation of the ..."
3. Lindores Abbey and Its Burgh of Newburgh: Their History and Annals by Alexander Laing (1876)
"Rules of chapmen. Pedlars, or as they are named in Scotland, chapmen, were formerly
... The rules of the ' chapmen of Perthshire,' and the minutes of their ..."
4. Old Scottish customs, local and general by Ellen Emma Guthrie (1885)
"... at Leslie—Superstitious custom at St. Mon- ance—The Touch Hills—The Maiden
Feast in Perthshire—The Society of chapmen at Dunkeld— Announcement of Death ..."
5. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"It is called the chapmen's ... termed so, as two "chapmen boys," coming from a
fair once, disputed, and slew each other there, by stabbing with pen knives. ..."
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