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
The Red Trail and the Yellowstone Trail had joined now and she was one of the new Canterbury Pilgrims.
From Free Air by Lewis, Sinclair
One of his most popular, though not the best of his pictures, is the Procession of the Canterbury Pilgrims.
From English Painters with a chapter on American painters by Koehler, S. R.
Frontispiece, "The Canterbury Pilgrims," from an illuminated MS.
From Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Carman, Bliss
The Canterbury Pilgrims had little to learn from Christabel Pankhurst.
From What is Coming? by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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