Usage examples (8)

• Jean-Luc Colombo, an oenologist from Marseilles, moved here with his wife, Anne, in the 1980s, first establishing a negotiant/consulting business and later buying vineyards.
• Monsieur Tavel, negotiant a Bordeaux himself, was more likely to be aware of a fellow wineshipper than of a chateau seventy kilometres to the north. '' ll find out, 'he...
• "Ma foi," said the commandant, "c'est un negotiant, un bourgeois" -- take him away to the citadel, we will examine him to-morrow, at present we must dress for the...
• Only an occasional negotiant comes up from Gap or Grenoble, seeking orders in the villages, for whom the ordinary auberges suffice.