chapmanhood

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English chapmanhode, chapmanhede, equivalent to chapman +‎ -hood.

Noun

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chapmanhood (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The activity or business of a chapman (merchant, peddler); trading, bargaining.
    • 1392, 1835 (translated), Geoffrey Chaucer, translated by Charles Cowden Clarke, The riches of Chaucer, page 148:
      Were it for chapmanhood or for disport,
      No other message would they thither send,
      But come themselves to Rome,
      this is the end; []