colportage
English
Etymology
1840s, from French colportage, from colporteur (1723).
Noun
colportage (usually uncountable, plural colportages)
- the distribution or selling of publications via carriers, particularly devotional literature
Related terms
- colporter, colporteur
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
colportage m (plural colportages)
- colportage
Further reading
- “colportage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.