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pedlar en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English pedlare, variant of Middle English pedare. More at peddler.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, qualifier:otherwise dated) Alternative spelling of peddler.
   alt of peddler
   • I had strolled along the platform where the native pedlars called their wares as passengers leaned from the wide carriage windows. 1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:
   • 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,... 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:

Forms

Deriveds

pedlaress · dope-pedlar