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What does colportage mean?

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Noun
  1. the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature
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In the case of colportage that use is taken to an extreme, as the bibliophile becomes bibliophage.
These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their particular period.
They were in the tradition of colportage, hawked by street pedlars who entered bars and workshops, or sold by tobacconists, newsagents, or at railway kiosks.
We have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers.

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