Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foreign trader.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A foreign trader.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
foreign trader .
Etymologies
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Italian. See merchant.
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Examples
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[129] Che il procedere del Duca era un procedere da mercatante.
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day Ferdinand Gregorovius
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_mercatante_ substituted by Steevens for "marcantant" of the folios; and
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