Coryate

American  

[kawr-ee-it] / ˈkɔr i ɪt /

Also Coryat

noun

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

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Coryate

Odcombe was the birthplace of Tom Coryate, who, early in the 17th cent., tramped through Europe and the East.

From Somerset by G. W. Wade

By thee wise Coryate we are taught to know, Great, with great men which is the way to grow.

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, 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

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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