country merchant

English

Noun

country merchant (plural country merchants)

  1. Synonym of country store (“general store in a rural setting”)
    • 1916, Melville Davisson Post, “The Man Hunters”, in The Saturday Evening Post‎:
      The wrapping paper bore the name of a country merchant. The robbers had purchased material for their masks at this country store […]
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