Canterbury Pilgrims
Britishplural noun
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the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
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the early settlers in Christchurch, Canterbury region
Example Sentences
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The Canterbury Pilgrims and The Scarecrow remain his finest achievements.
From Time Magazine Archive
We may choose to call Chaucer's "Canterbury Pilgrims" an epic, if we will, but even so we cannot avoid the feeling that it is a sequence of ballads.
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
This visit in early life to the Shakers is interesting as suggesting to Hawthorne his beautiful story of "The Canterbury Pilgrims," which is in his volume of "The Snow-Image, and other Twice-Told Tales."
From Yesterdays with Authors by Fields, James T.
Among his Canterbury Pilgrims he says:— A schipman was ther, wonyng fer by weste; For ought I wost, he was of Dertemouthe.
From What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association by Home, Gordon
The Canterbury Pilgrims had little to learn from Christabel Pankhurst.
From What is Coming? by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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