travel-tainted love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as travel-stained.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Harassed; fatigued with travel.

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Examples

  • I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score and odd posts: and here, travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy.

    The second part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score and odd posts; and here, travel-tainted as I am, have, in my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy.

    Act IV. Scene III. The Second Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914

  • I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered nine score and odd posts: and here, travel-tainted as I am, have in my pure and immaculate valour, taken Sir John Colevile of the dale, a most furious knight and valorous enemy.

    The Second Part of King Henry IV 1598

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