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English
Etymology
From peddler + -y.
Noun
peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)
- (obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.
- (obsolete) trickery
1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 2nd book, page 54:[...] may at one time or other looke with a good judgement into these their deceitfull Pedleries,
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