chapmanhood
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English chapmanhode, chapmanhede, equivalent to chapman + -hood.
Noun edit
chapmanhood (uncountable)
- (archaic) The activity or business of a chapman (merchant, peddler); trading, bargaining.
- 1392, 1835 (translated), Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Charles Cowden Clarke, The riches of Chaucer, page 148:
- Were it for chapmanhood or for disport,
No other message would they thither send,
But come themselves to Rome,
this is the end; […]