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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 854 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHAPMAN (from O. Eng. ceap, and
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Mid. Eng. ,heap, to
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barter, cf. " Cheapside " in
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London, and Ger.
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Kaufmann)  , one who
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buys or sells, a trader or dealer, especially an itinerant pedlar . The word "
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chap," now a
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slang
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term, meant originally a customer .

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