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Pilgrim Fathers

British  

plural noun

  1. the English Puritans who sailed on the Mayflower to New England, where they founded Plymouth Colony in SE Massachusetts (1620)

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“You have to be somewhere near the tracks of the Pilgrim Fathers to get much meaning out of Thanksgiving.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2023

The Pilgrim Fathers set sail just two years before actors from Shakespeare’s Globe clubbed together to commission a volume of his plays.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2016

The Pilgrim Fathers who dominate our memory were a tiny unrepresentative minority.

From Time • Nov. 26, 2014

A replica of the vessel already exists in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Pilgrim Fathers set up the Plymouth plantation colony.

From BBC • May 1, 2013

"Say," said Bill, "do you know that gang of Pilgrim Fathers have cornered the dining-car until half past three this afternoon?"

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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