colportage

English

19th century colporter

Etymology

1840s, from French colportage, from colporteur (1723).

Noun

colportage (usually uncountable, plural colportages)

1. 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)

1. colportage

Further reading

• “colportage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.