Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fatigued and disheveled by traveling.
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- adjective tired by travel
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Examples
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Popular woodcuts and prints represented the wandering Jew with a walking stick, travel-worn, bearded, and poor.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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He was badly travel-worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south.
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They arrived here muddy, travel-worn, and exhausted, having moved faster than word of their approach could have been sent.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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He was badly travel-worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Golovin Bay and asked the way south.
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Popular woodcuts and prints represented the wandering Jew with a walking stick, travel-worn, bearded, and poor.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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They arrived here muddy, travel-worn, and exhausted, having moved faster than word of their approach could have been sent.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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As a boy, he regularly watched the steamboats threshing into view, offloading knots of travel-worn passengers whose dreams were bundled, along with their belongings, into a few threadbare carpetbags.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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A man in dirty, travel-worn clothes stood there, panting with fatigue.
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A man in dirty, travel-worn clothes stood there, panting with fatigue.
Spell of Magic – Part 8 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2008
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His green gaze, framed by thick black lashes, flicked across her, and Mary was painfully aware of how travel-worn she must appear.
One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010
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