单词 | travelling man |
释义 | > as lemmastravelling man travelling man n. (originally) an itinerant vendor, a pedlar; (later) a travelling salesman. ΚΠ 1747 Westm. Jrnl. 7 Nov. Hannah, wife of John Meshell, a Travelling Man, or Pedler. 1800 T. Jefferson Memorandum Bks. 21 Sept. (1997) 1027 Gave a travelling man an order on Higginbotham for 5.D[ollars]. 1990 G. Plimpton Best of Plimpton iii. vi. 258 His involvement with fireworks was due largely to his father, a ‘traveling man’—a rather more glamorous descriptive than salesman. < as lemmas |
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