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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
colport .
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Examples
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February, 1309, as the date, and Avignon as the place for the trial of his dead predecessor on the shameful charges so long colported about Europe by the Colonna cardinals and their faction.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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You don't mean to insinuate that thing I schemed and sweated for, and colported with my own hands, was the body of a total stranger? '
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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You don’t mean to insinuate that thing I schemed and sweated for, and colported with my own hands, was the body of a total stranger?’
The Wrong Box 2004
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