peddlery
English
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Etymology
Noun
peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)
- (obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.
- (obsolete) trickery
- 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 54; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
- [...] may at one time or other looke with a good judgement into these their deceitfull Pedleries,
References
- “peddlery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.