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What is a colporteur?

What is a colporteur? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A peddler of publications, especially of religious books
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We have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers.
Several months passed, and then one of the brethren, a colporteur, came.
Society's leading colporteur is Rev. John A. Birseneek, stationed on Ellis Island.
He then left for France where he worked for the Continental Society as a colporteur distributing Bibles and preaching.
It was found to correspond exactly with that of the colporteur!
There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the colporteur.

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