Canterbury Pilgrims

British  

plural noun

1. the pilgrims whose stories are told in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

2. the early settlers in Christchurch, Canterbury region

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Example Sentences

Since I’ve already zipped through the first chapters, I know that the passengers constitute a cross-section of American types — visualize an updated version of Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims — whose actions, often enigmatic and ominously unsettling, are relayed in fast-moving, syncopated prose, each sentence like a knife-thrust.

From Washington Post

Most are sacred texts, but some are deliciously secular, like the sometimes bawdy poems and songs of the Carmina Burana or the tales of Chaucer’s Canterbury pilgrims.

From New York Times

A version of this review appears in print on February 28, 2014, on page C21 of the with the headline: Luminous Canterbury Pilgrims .

From New York Times

The Three Choirs festival introduced three major commissions, but curiously until now the work that is regarded as Dyson's finest, The Canterbury Pilgrims, first performed in 1930, had never been heard at one of its annual gatherings.

From The Guardian

One of his most popular, though not the best of his pictures, is the Procession of the Canterbury Pilgrims.

From Project Gutenberg