FARANDMAN Stranger or traveller, travelling merchant This one's new to me.

this one keeps kicking up dust in my mind... i can't quite place it.. there is a similar words (scot's i think,) pharoman, which was a term used to describe gypsies, and others who came from any where south and east of the Rhine..

but there is an other word-- closer to farand(man)but not pharoman that also means 'traveller, travelling merchant'--or i think there is... not a common word, and a UK english one, not a US term..

gypsy of course, is from egyptian, and pharoman was 'some one from the land of the pharohs'or more generally, some one from far away with exotic things to trade. (even if really just from italy!)



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