| 单词 | canterbury pilgrim |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCanterbury pilgrim c. New Zealand. Also Canterbury pilgrim. Any of the British colonists who first settled in Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1850.Originally (in quot. 1850) with allusion to pilgrims travelling to Canterbury, England, as in Chaucer, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > colonist or settler > [noun] > other specific colonists or settlers pilgrim1630 originals1703 old settler1744 Big Knife1750 out-settler1755 provincial1756 Boer1776 freeman1791 Pilgrim Fathers1799 back-settler1809 undertaker1819 oecist1846 Argonaut1848 Canterbury pilgrim1850 poblador1850 shagroon1851 forty-niner1853 planter1858 inside squatter1881 local white1888 Minyan1928 1850 M. F. Tupper in Canterbury Papers IV. 116 Heaven speed you, noble band! Linked together heart and hand, Sworn to seek that far-off land Canterbury Pilgrims. 1851 Times 5 July 8/6 At the head of the pilgrims..were working clergy, working schoolmasters, working landlords, working labourers—workers every one! 1865 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1874) iii. 20 Fifteen years ago a few sheds received the ‘Pilgrims’, as the first comers are always called. 1903 Daily Chron. 30 Mar. 5/2 Sir John Hall..was one of the original ‘Canterbury pilgrims’, as the first settlers in the New Zealand province founded under the auspices of the Church of England were styled. 1972 M. Anderson Let. from James 143 The shake [i.e. earthquake] was described as the most severe since the arrival of the pilgrims. 2000 Christchurch (N.Z.) Press (Nexis) 16 Dec. 10 When James Edward FitzGerald jumped ashore at Lyttelton, 150 years ago almost to the hour, he did more than just become the first of the Pilgrims to land. < as lemmas |
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