Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who traffics with another.
- noun One who holds social intercourse or communes with another.
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Examples
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As regards their position, one should be guided by Napoleon's maxim, _Les femmes n'ont pas de rang_; and regarding them in other things, Chamfort says very truly: _Elles sont faites pour commercer avec nos faiblesses avec notre folie, mais non avec notre raison.
Essays of Schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer 1824
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As regards their position, one should be guided by Napoleon’s maxim, Les femmes n’ont pas de rang; and regarding them in other things, Chamfort says very truly: Elles sont faites pour commercer avec nos faiblesses avec notre folie, mais non avec notre raison.
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It is there stated of the aborigines that when "les marchands des autres royaumes y venaient commercer, _ils ne laissaient pas voir leurs corps_, et montraient au moyen de pierres précieuses le prix que pouvaient valoir les merchandises.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836
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