Definition of "travelling salesman" []

• A man who travels, often within a certain territory, soliciting orders or selling goods. (noun)

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• "He watched with indifference the unharnessing of the unfortunate brute, and heard without interest the unhelpful answers of a passing travelling salesman with a pack-mule of whom Caillard demanded the whereabouts of the nearest smith."