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
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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.
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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
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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.
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