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travelsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From travel + -some. Piecewise doublet of travailsome.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by travelling.
   • The book was published in 1901 in London, and is now (such are the vagaries of our travelsome scholarship) kept under lock and key in the Deering Library of Northwestern University. 1988, Erich Heller, The Importance of Nietzsche:
   • The Caribou is a travelsome beast, always in a hurry, going against the wind. 2010, Ernest Thompson Seton, The Arctic Prairies:

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