Coryate

American  

[kawr-ee-it] / ˈkɔr i ɪt /

Also Coryat

noun

1. Thomas, 1577–1617, English traveler and author.

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Coryate

We will next proceed to the mention of a shrewd scholar and bibliomaniac, and ever active voyager, ycleped Thomas Coryate, the Peregrine of Odcombe.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Thomas Coryate of the Crudities, who also tells the tale, believed it implicitly.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Marshall, Herbert, R. W .S.

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 Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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 Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)

Coryate, an English traveller, who called himself the "Odcombian leg-stretcher."

From The Pennyles Pilgrimage Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor by Taylor, John