colportages
/ˈkɑlˌpɔrtɪdʒɪz/
noun
- Plural of colportage; multiple instances or types of the business of traveling to sell books, newspapers, or religious materials.
- Different colportages specialized in different types of literature, from hymnals to almanacs.
- The museum exhibit displayed the tools and carts used in early American colportages.
- The historical society documented various colportages that operated across the frontier.