well-travelledwell-traveledadj.

c1450 Mandeville's Trav. (Coventry) (1973) l. 24 (MED) A worþi sowdioure forsothe was he And wel trauailid biyonde the see In many a dyuers kinges londe.

1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 174 Hystories..wrytten by wyttie and expert men well trauayled in the worlde.

1599 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 301 We haue sent you one Anthonie Ienkinson Gentleman, a man well trauelled, whom we mind to vse in further trauelling.

1656 A. Cowley To Dr. Scarborough in Pindaric Odes iv And Thy well-travell'd knowledge too does give No less account of th' Empire Sensitive.

1697 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Fortune in her Wits 38 With his grave Beard and long Cloak [he] not a little resembled a well travelled Mountebank.

1753 Micellany Following Particulars iii. 11 An air of Reserve which is usually avoided by Persons well travelled in the world.

1786 Daily Universal Reg. 21 Aug. 4/2 He fell into company, in Naples, with some well-travelled, well-informed foreigners.

1837 Flowers of Fiction 332/1 The guide, though a well-travelled native, had forgotten the usual pass.

1889 F. S. Arnot Garenganze iii. 122 I looked with amazement on the piece of rude, well-travelled paper.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point x. 159 So well travelled, so brilliantly cosmopolitan and West-End.

1969 Internat. Herald Tribune 6 Nov. 14/2 (advt.) Young American, excellent education U.S.A.-Europe, Ph.D. quadri-lingual, well traveled.

1998 BBC Vegetarian Good Food Sept. 47/2 And so the cheap, well travelled, year-round tomato was born.

2010 D. Stewart Boy who would be Shakespeare i. 7 He cultivated the image of a well-read, well-traveled gentleman.

1797 F. Jacson Disobedience III. xiii. 174 She had walked something more than half an hour, when..she came out into a broad, and apparently well-travelled turnpike road.

1831 Daily National Jrnl. (Washington, D.C.) 25 June It would be impossible for any other individual to..compete with him on a well travelled route with the usual means of conveyance by horse power.

1875 Sunday Teachers' Treasury 289/1 The shadows of evening began to fall when he came to a well-travelled highway.

1960 B. Goldwater Conscience of Conservative (1961) ii. 18 Release the holders of state power from any restraints other than those they wish to impose upon themselves, and you are swinging down the well-travelled road to absolutism.

1997 Indianapolis Star 6 July j7/2 In every yard there are a few well-traveled routes, such as from the driveway to the doorway.