traveloguen.
/ˈtravəlɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈtrævəˌlɔɡ/, /ˈtrævəˌlɑɡ/ Originally U.S.
Originally: a lecture or presentation, usually accompanied by the showing of slides or a film, in which a traveller talks about the places he or she visited on a particular journey and describes the experiences he or she had while travelling. Later more generally: any account of or documentary about a person's travels, now typically in the form of a film, television programme, or book.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > record or account of (a) journey(s > [noun]
itinerary1483
peregrination1548
travels1579
voyage1587
itinerario1588
journal1600
trip1712
itinerarium1747
logbook1791
tour1812
log1825
travel document1892
travelogue1898
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > type of film > [noun] > documentary > types of
travelogue1898
instructional1921
compilation film1953
docudrama1961
rockumentary1968
drama-documentary1970
shockumentary1970
docutainment1978
1898 Boston Daily Advertiser 3 Dec. 4/6 Dr. John Bowker, inventor and coiner of new words..has what he calls an ‘illustrated travelogue’ on Hawaii.
1903 Daily Chron. 16 Apr. 6/7 Mr. Burton Holmes, an American entertainer new to London, delivered last evening the first of a series of ‘Travelogues’.
1921 Glasgow Herald 7 Nov. 10 The..Travelogue film, ‘With Allenby in Palestine and Lawrence in Arabia’.
1927 H. E. Fosdick Pilgrimage to Palestine p. vii Some [books] are simply travelogues in which the successive experiences of the traveler furnish the strand for the narrative.
2007 Times (Nexis) 30 July (Times2 section) 19 In another celebrity travelogue, Sanjeev Bhaskar travels across India to find out how much it has changed since its economic revolution.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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