Negotiant
"Negotiant" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Ambassadors, negotiants, and generally all other ministers of mean fortune, in conversation with princes and superiors, must use great respect
Such was the scarcity of bread, that a French gentleman told me, that, the day preceding the taking of the Bastille, he was invited to dine with a Negotiant, and, when he went, was informed that a servant had been out five hours in search of bread, and had at last been able to purchase only one loaf.