Definition of "commercial traveller" []

• Travelling salesman. (noun)

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• "To expect Hawthorne to become a literary genius, and at the same time to develop the peculiar faculties of a commercial traveller or a curb-stone broker, was unreasonable."
• "Of course a tramp is not a nomadic atavism — one might as well say that a commercial traveller is an atavism."