travelling people
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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"People are travelling, people are going back to the office although probably not back to where it was, and people are socialising. So we're seeing a big pick up in sales relating to those activities."
From BBC ● May 30, 2022
"It was mostly travelling people, sometimes from fairgrounds, who would have a projector and a roll of film and put it up in a theatre or village hall."
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2022
From the middle of the 1970s through to the end of the 1990s, circumstances had conspired to turn us into a travelling people.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2020
She later became an adviser on travelling people to the Secretary of State for Scotland and was a strong advocate of travelling culture.
From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2015
For we are a most travelling people, we of this Island in this time; and, as the Prophet threatened, see ourselves, in so many senses, made "like unto a wheel!"
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
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