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Definition of Peddlery
1. n. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.
Definition of Peddlery
1. Noun. (obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) trickery ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peddlery
1. the trade of a peddler [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peddlery
Literary usage of Peddlery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... we can purchase something more elaborate from the artist who lives by his
imagination (which is not to say that all literature is 'dream-peddlery'), ..."
2. The French Revolution and English Literature: Lectures Delivered in by Edward Dowden (1897)
"He tramped the country, hawking peddlery with his mother; he begged alms from
the passers-by. He had risen in the world when as a stable-boy ..."
3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"In short, poetry and peddlery proved equally unsuccessful in his hands ; he had
neither impudence, flattery, nor importunity enough to pass off either the ..."
4. Baptist Missionary Magazine by Massachusetts Baptist Convention, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1853)
"Vending books by colportage was said to be peddlery ; and no man could be a
peddler in Prussia without government license, unless ho wasa Bible colporteur, ..."
5. The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington by Richard Robert Madden (1855)
"... our packed peddlery 1 Wonderful it must appear, that England, as a residence,
is preferable to Ireland among those who, in the London gaming-houses, ..."
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