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Definition of Travel-stained
1. Adjective. Soiled from travel. "Travel-soiled clothes"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Travel-stained
Literary usage of Travel-stained
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade (1864)
"And so the pair, Gerard bronzed in the face and travel-stained from head to foot,
and Denys with his shoes in tatters, stiff and footsore both of them, ..."
2. My Strange Life: The Intimate Life Story of a Moving Picture Actress by Edward J. Clode (Firm (1915)
"The following autumn, on a particularly bright morning, a rather travel-stained
and perhaps provincial-looking girl appeared at the entrance of the X Studio ..."
3. The Making of Herbert Hoover by Rose Wilder Lane (1920)
"... up running-costs in percentages, when the sound of wheels came through the
open door and Wilson, travel-stained and dusty, appeared in the doorway. ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1886)
"... become travel-stained journeying to the course, or who, not being travel-
stained, is " fetched" by the supposed spontaneous recognition of something ..."
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