Chapmanhood

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The activity or business of a chapman (merchant, peddler); trading, bargaining. archaic, uncountable

    "Were it for chapmanhood or for disport, No other message would they thither send, But come themselves to Rome, this is the end; […]"

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"Were it for chapmanhood or for disport, No other message would they thither send, But come themselves to Rome, this is the end; […]"

Etymology

From Middle English chapmanhode, chapmanhede, equivalent to chapman + -hood.

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