"marchant" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse",
          "text": "His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: […]",
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          "ref": "1575, “Apius and Virginia”, in Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, editors, A Select Collection of Old Plays, London: Septimus Prowett, published 1826, page 353",
          "text": "By Jove, master marchant, by sea or by land\nWould get but smale argent if I did not stand\nHis very good master, I may say to you,\nWhen he hazards in hope what hap will insue.",
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          "ref": "1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, Book I, Chapter 14",
          "text": "Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently.",
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          "ref": "1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English",
          "text": "‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.",
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          "ref": "1594, Odet de la Noue, translated by Iosuah Silvester, The Profit of Imprisonment. A Paradox, VVritten in French by Odet de la Noue, Lord of Teligni, Being Prisoner in the Castle of Tournay., London: […] Peter Short, for Edward Blunt",
          "roman": "Free from all perills ſad that threaten ſaylor’s ſpoile?",
          "text": "The Marchant that returnes from ſome far forrain lands,\nEſcaping dreadfull rocks and dangerous ſhelfs and ſands,\nWhen as he ſees his ſhip her home-hauen enter ſafe,\nWill he repine at God, and as offended chafe\nFor being brought to ſoone home to his natiue ſoile,",
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          "ref": "1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.",
          "text": "The grasse and herbe doth fat sheepe in very short space, proued by English marchants which haue caried sheepe thither for fresh victuall and had them raised exceeding fat in lesse then three weekes.",
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          "ref": "1916, The Windsor Magazine - Volume 44, page 353",
          "text": "\"An' he bes free times as old as herself,\" he wailed, \" an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im.\"",
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        "Obsolete form of merchant."
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          "ref": "1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse",
          "text": "His wife (having invented a present shift) laughed on her husband, saying: What marchant I pray you have you brought home hither, to fetch away my tub for five pence, for which I poore woman that sit all day alone in my house have beene proffered so often seaven: […]",
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          "ref": "1575, “Apius and Virginia”, in Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, editors, A Select Collection of Old Plays, London: Septimus Prowett, published 1826, page 353",
          "text": "By Jove, master marchant, by sea or by land\nWould get but smale argent if I did not stand\nHis very good master, I may say to you,\nWhen he hazards in hope what hap will insue.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, Book I, Chapter 14",
          "text": "Now by the chaunge of a vizard one man might play the king and the carter, the old nurse and the yong damsell, the marchant and the souldier or any other part he listed very conveniently.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1591, John Florio, Second Frutes to be gathered of twelve trees, of diverse but delightful tastes to the tongues of Italian and English",
          "text": "‘What thinke you of this English, tel me I pray you.’ ‘It is a language that wyl do you good in England but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing.’ ‘Is it not used then in other countreyes?’ ‘No sir, with whom wyl you that they speake?’ ‘With English marchants.’ ‘English marchantes, when they are out of England, it liketh hem not, and they doo not speake it.",
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          "roman": "Free from all perills ſad that threaten ſaylor’s ſpoile?",
          "text": "The Marchant that returnes from ſome far forrain lands,\nEſcaping dreadfull rocks and dangerous ſhelfs and ſands,\nWhen as he ſees his ſhip her home-hauen enter ſafe,\nWill he repine at God, and as offended chafe\nFor being brought to ſoone home to his natiue ſoile,",
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        },
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          "ref": "1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.",
          "text": "The grasse and herbe doth fat sheepe in very short space, proued by English marchants which haue caried sheepe thither for fresh victuall and had them raised exceeding fat in lesse then three weekes.",
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        },
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          "text": "\"An' he bes free times as old as herself,\" he wailed, \" an' ugly as a squid ! But he bes rich — rich as any marchant — an' for the bread an' the fixin's an' the gold she bes takin' 'im.\"",
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