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Walsingham|ˈwɔːlsɪŋəm| The name of a town in Norfolk, used attrib. in Walsingham Way, a designation of the Milky Way supposed formerly to have been used as a guide by pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.
c1878G. M. Hopkins Loss of Eurydice in Poems (1967) 75 A starlight-wender of ours would say The marvellous Milk was Walsingham Way. 1922Joyce Ulysses 685 The waggoner's star: Walsingham way: the chariot of David: the annular cinctures of Saturn. 1973M. J. Petry Herne the Hunter vi. 71 In certain parts of England, and especially in East Anglia, the Milky Way was also known as the Walsingham Way, on account of the hosts of pilgrims who passed along the roads..to the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham in Norfolk. |