Definitions for colportage

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colportage col·por·tage

Spelling: [kol-pawr-tij, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-t Colportage is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 749 anagrams from letters in colportage (aceglooprt).

Definitions for colportage

noun

1. the work of a colporteur.

Origin of colportage

1840-50; French, equivalent to colport(er) to hawk (literally, carry on the neck; see col, port⁵) + -age -age

Examples for colportage

We have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers.

These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their particular period.