Definition of Travel-stained

1. Adjective. Soiled from travel. "Travel-soiled clothes"

Exact synonyms: Travel-soiled
Similar to: Dirty, Soiled, Unclean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Travel-stained

traunted
traunter
traunters
traunting
traunts
travail
travailed
travaileth
travailing
travailous
travails
travaux
trave
travel
travel-soiled
travel-stained (current term)
travel-worn
travel agencies
travel agency
travel agent
travel agents
travel allowance
travel along
travel and entertainment account
travel back and forth
travel bargain
travel by
travel document
travel expense
travel guidebook

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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