chapmanhood en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English chapmanhode, chapmanhede, equivalent to chapman + -hood.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) The activity or business of a chapman (merchant, peddler); trading, bargaining.
Were it for chapmanhood or for disport, No other message would they thither send, But come themselves to Rome, this is the end; […]
1392, 1835 (translated), Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Charles Cowden Clarke, The riches of Chaucer, page 148: