pedlar
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English
Etymology
From Middle English pedlare, variant of Middle English pedare. More at peddler.
Noun
pedlar (plural pedlars)
- (chiefly British, otherwise dated) Alternative spelling of peddler
- 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. , volume II, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 162:
- After a time she touched the bell, with great caution; the cook appeared, to whom she gave a slip of paper, on which the woman vanished, leaving the little pedlar of small wares standing on the steps, where she had already placed her basket,...
- 1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
- I had strolled along the platform where the native pedlars called their wares as passengers leaned from the wide carriage windows.
Derived terms
References
- “pedlar”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.