merchand

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verb

To trade; to traffic.

OriginFrench marchander →
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Meanings

verbmerchand (third-person singular simple present merchands, present participle merchanding, simple past and past participle merchanded)

present singular third person merchands · participle present merchanding · participle past merchanded · past merchanded

  1. obsoleteTo trade; to traffic.

    Besides that, Ferdinando had but newly taken breath from the war with the Moors; and merchanded at this time with France for the restoring of the counties of Russignon and Perpignian, oppignorated to the French.

    1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 91

Origin

  1. Frenchmarchander
  2. Englishmerchand

From French marchander. See merchant.

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Chicago

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