"pedlar" meaning in English

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          "word": "dope-pedlar"
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          "text": "After a time she touched the bell, with great caution; the cook appeared, to whom she gave a slip of paper, on which the woman vanished, leaving the little pedlar of small wares standing on the steps, where she had already placed her basket,...",
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          "ref": "1942 July-August, Philip Spencer, “On the Footplate in Egypt”, in Railway Magazine, page 208:",
          "text": "I had strolled along the platform where the native pedlars called their wares as passengers leaned from the wide carriage windows.",
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