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Definition of Colporteurs
1. colporteur [n] - See also: colporteur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colporteurs
| colpoperineorrhaphy colpopexy colpoplasty colporate colport colportage colportages colported colporteur colporteurs (current term) | colporting colports colposcopes colposcopic colposcopies colpostenotomy |
Literary usage of Colporteurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cyclopedia of Missions: Containing a Comprehensive View of Missionary by Harvey Newcomb (1855)
"Whole number of colporteurs, 151 ; of whom one was in India, six in the British
Provinces, three in Maine, two in New Hampshire, ..."
2. China and the Allies by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1901)
"CHAPTER LI Thousands killed—Mr. Gammon's staff of colporteurs—The American Bible
store in Pekin and the Emperor—Chinese translations of religious and ..."
3. The Missionary Magazine by American Baptist Foreign Mission Society (1862)
"But in consequence of the people's importunate desire, and perhaps also of the
colporteurs' own inclination, preaching became their predominant occupation, ..."
4. The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Susannah Spurgeon, Joseph Harrald (1899)
"... in the latter year, 94 colporteurs were engaged, their sales for the twelve
months amounted to ,£8276, and they had, during that period, ..."
5. Wanderings in China by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1900)
"BLIND MEN AND colporteurs. culated in India and Japan, and will doubtless ere
long appear in China also. Another very remarkable step in the direction of ..."
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