Crossword clues for colporteur
colporteur
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Colporteur
Colporteur \Col"por`teur\ (?; 277), n. [F. colporteur one who carries on his neck, fr. colporter to carry on one's neck; col (L. collum) neck + porter (L. portare) to carry.] A hawker; specifically, one who travels about selling and distributing religious tracts and books.
Wiktionary
colporteur
n. A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
Usage examples of "colporteur".
A peaceful farming country this, but an unremunerative field, one would say, for the colporteur and the book-agent.
His Map and Description of New England was published in 1616, and he became a colporteur of this, beseeching everywhere a hearing for his noble scheme.