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
—Tales of the Canterbury Pilgrims; retold from Chaucer and others by F.J.
From Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours by Power, Effie L. (Effie Louise)
Among the best known of his dramas are: "The Canterbury Pilgrims", 1903; "Fenris, the Wolf", 1905; "Jeanne d'Arc", 1906; "Sappho and Phaon", 1907; and "Caliban: A Masque", 1916.
From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle
Among his own engravings the best known is the famous picture of Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims, which is not altogether free from the weird strangeness that distinguished most of his work in all lines.
From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington
The most attentive listener and the most critical among the Canterbury Pilgrims is the Host of the Tabard.
From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by Ker, W. P. (William Paton)
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