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Venturer

noun
1.
A merchant who undertakes a trading venture (especially a venture that sends goods overseas).  Synonym: merchant-venturer.
2.
A person who enjoys taking risks.  Synonym: adventurer.





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"Venturer" Quotes from Famous Books



... native hands; and English chivalry, diplomacy, and literature followed in the lines of the trade-routes to the Baltic and the Mediterranean. Our mariners, like their type the "Shipman" in Chaucer (an anticipation of the "Venturer" of later days, with the pirate as yet, perhaps, more strongly marked ...
— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward
... out to make an end of this mystery. He reached the inn at dusk: it was a gentle summer evening; the windows were open to the tender air; lamps were lit within, and a merry party sat at dinner. Through the open window the suspicious venturer saw the recreant ambassadors, gay with laughter. And there, sitting in the lamplight, was the American lady—a slender, thoughtful enchantress with eyes as dark and glowing as the wine. Thus it was that Robert Louis Stevenson first saw ...
— Pipefuls • Christopher Morley


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