knight of the road
Britishnoun
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a tramp
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a commercial traveller
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a lorry driver
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obsolete a highwayman
Example Sentences
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The newspaper spirit had its embodiment in Micky O'Byrn, the tattered knight of the road whose first story electrified the city editor of the Courier.
From The Lash by Olin L. Lyman
Her better judgment told her that she could be nothing to this debonair knight of the road, yet her heart stubbornly resisted all the arguments that her reason put forth.
From Beverly of Graustark by George Barr McCutcheon
I have, for the time being, assumed the habiliments of a knight of the road, for certain purposes of my own.
From The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale Or, camping and tramping for fun and health by Laura Lee Hope
At Lagny, with her own men and the Scots, the Maid fought and took one Franquet d’Arras, a Burgundian “routier,” or knight of the road, who plundered that country without mercy.
From A Monk of Fife by Andrew Lang
How do you fancy me as a knight of the road?
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
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