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Chapman   /tʃˈæpmən/   Listen
Chapman

noun
(pl. chapmen)
1.
United States pioneer who planted apple trees as he traveled (1774-1845).  Synonyms: John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed.
2.
Archaic term for an itinerant peddler.



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"Chapman" Quotes from Famous Books



... during the reigns of nine Kings. Then the Dean, finding that the task of collecting his rents and dues was 'chargeable, troublesome, and sometimes dangerous ... desired to sell it, and met with a very fit chapman, John Grandisson, Lord Bishop ...
— Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts • Rosalind Northcote
... The Haunted Bookshop (CHAPMAN AND HALL) is a daring, perhaps too daring, mixture of a browse in a second-hand bookshop and a breathless bustle among international criminals. To estimate the accuracy of its technical details the critic must be a secret service ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, July 28th, 1920 • Various
... Maeterlinck than has Loeffler in La Mort de Tintagiles; and The Pagan Poem, founded on an Eclogue of Virgil portrays most eloquently the romance of those pastoral days. Loeffler's latest work, a String Quartet[344] dedicated to the memory of Victor Chapman, the Harvard aviator, is remarkable for the heart-felt beauty of its themes and for advanced technique in treating the ...
— Music: An Art and a Language • Walter Raymond Spalding
... To Chapman I will write. My impression is that I shall not subscribe to the Hood monument, as I am not at all favourable ...
— The Letters of Charles Dickens - Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856 • Charles Dickens
... 1837 concludes with an entry referring to a banquet given at the London Coffee House by the Commercial Travellers' Society, under the presidency of Sir Chapman Marshall, at which Sir Moses was present. Two hundred persons sat down to table, among whom L1200 was collected for the benefit of the institution. This entry is followed by an account of a narrow escape of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore. "We have been much alarmed," he writes, ...
— Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I • Sir Moses Montefiore


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