ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Marchant

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Marchant is a noun meaning Obsolete form of merchant.

Meaning

Obsolete form of merchant.

Example Sentences

Faith Gentlemen now I play a marchants part, And venture madly on a deſperate Mart.
To whom they shewed, how those marchants were Arriv'd in place their bondslaves for to buy […].
By Jove, master marchant, by sea or by land Would get but smale argent if I did not stand His very good master, I may say to you, When he hazards in hope what hap will insue.
Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently.

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Related dictionary entries include markland, markman, marcot, market.

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