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PEDDLERY
Etymology
Noun
peddlery (usually uncountable, plural peddleries)
(obsolete) The trade or goods of a peddler.
(obsolete) trickery
Source: Wiktionary
Ped"dler*y, n. Etym: [Written also pedlary and pedlery.]
1. The trade, or the goods, of a peddler; hawking; small retail business, like that of a peddler.
2. Trifling; trickery. [Obs.] "Look . . . into these their deceitful peddleries." Milton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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