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well-ˈtravelled, ppl. a.
That has travelled far; experienced in travel; also fig.
In the first quot. the word may be = well travailed; the Fr. probably means ‘active’, ‘energetic’. Cf. also quot. c 1420 s.v. travailed.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. (1812) II. 469 Sir Johne Rosseau, who was a well trauelled knight and well knowen [bien trauaillant et congneu en plusieurs terres]. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 208 Hystories..wrytten by wyttie and expert men well trauayled in the worlde. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, To Dr. Scarborough iv, And Thy well-travell'd knowledge too does give No less account of th' Empire Sensitive. 1870Duke of Argyll Iona i. 2, I have heard well-travelled men declare that nothing they had seen in any part of the world had ever produced such an effect upon them [as Fingal's Cave]. |