Coryate
Americannoun
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Many Englishmen have travelled in Holland and have set down the record of their experiences, from Thomas Coryate downwards.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
Coryate, an English traveller, who called himself the "Odcombian leg-stretcher."
From The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor by John Taylor
Liue vertuous Coryate, and for euer be Lik'd of such wise men, as are most like thee.
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
Thomas Coryate, a noted traveller, is said to have introduced them into Germany, and afterwards into England, where their use was at first much ridiculed as effeminate, the "fork-carving" traveller being spoken of in contempt.
From Chats on Household Curios by Fred. W. (Frederick William) Burgess
Coryate's Crudities, a book of travels by Thomas Coryate, who called himself the "Odcombian Legstretcher."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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