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packware en · NOUN

Etymology

From pack + -ware.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Goods carried in a pack, especially those for sale by a peddler.
    • […] when he again set out on his former route, carrying with him a plentiful supply of copies, for the benefit of those who might prefer poetry to packware. 1855, Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson, A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: Melville-Young, page 470: