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mercatrix

mercatrix [LL] 1 (as adj.) that belongs or relates to a merchant or tradesman, merchant. c1205 ut habeant gildam suam mercatoribus [v. l. mercatricem] Regesta Scot. 467; 1214 habeant gildam ‥ merchatricem (v. 2 gilda 4b). 2 (as sb.) merchant, trader (f.); b (fig.). 1395 Constancia, quondam uxor Willelmi de Bugthorp’, ~ix lane Pat 342 m. 14.  b pronuba est ‥ animarum ~ix ‥. est matrimonialis federis separatrix Spec. Laic. 68. 3 market-woman. 1284 de Isolda ~ice CalCl 291; quocienscumque aliqua mulier ~ix fuerit publica piscium, ‥ pannorum vel hujusmodi Cust. Fordwich 26 p. 264.

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