Definitions for colporteur

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colporteur col·por·teur

Spelling: [kol-pawr-ter, -pohr-; French kawl-pawr-t Colporteur is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 449 anagrams from letters in colporteur (celooprrtu).

Definitions for colporteur

noun

1. a person who travels to sell or publicize Bibles, religious tracts, etc.
2. a peddler of books.

Origin of colporteur

1790-1800; French, equivalent to colport(er) (see colportage) + -eur -eur

Examples for colporteur

“I take but the proper price,” answered the colporteur, returning most of them to him.

Several months passed, and then one of the brethren, a colporteur, came.

When they had finished, the colporteur said: "It is good to pray, I believe!"

It was found to correspond exactly with that of the colporteur!

Among the colporteur's arguments, however, was one that overcame him.

But these are not my words,” said the colporteur, “they are the words of God.

Joshua, was colporteur in Syria and in Asia Minor about 1860.

In one instance the colporteur was taken for a doctor; in the other for a hunter.

There was not the same public to welcome the Gypsy as had hailed the colporteur.

On a shelf in a corner lay the Bible which the family had received from the colporteur.