chapmanhood

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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; […]