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Brewer's: Tabard
The Tabard, in Southwark, is where Chaucer supposes his pilgrims to have assembled. The tabard was a jacket without sleeves, whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar, winged…Brewer's: Zuleika
Daughter of Giaffir, Pacha of Abydos. She is all purity and loveliness. Her intelligence, joyousness, undeviating love, and strict regard to duty are beautifully portrayed. She promises to…Brewer's: Valley of the Shadow of Death
through which Christian had to pass in order to get to the Celestial City. The prophet Jeremiah describes it as a “wilderness, a land of deserts and of pits, a land of drought and of the…Brewer's: Vanity Fair
A fair established by Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, for the sale of all sorts of vanities. It was held in the town of Vanity, and lasted all the year round. Here were sold houses, lands…Brewer's: Wayfaring Tree
(The). The Guelder rose (q.v.). Wayfaring Tree' What ancient claim Hast thou to that right pleasant name? Was it that some faint pilgrim…Brewer's: Make a hand of
or on (To). To slay, destroy, waste, or spoil. “So when I came to myself again, I' cried him mercy: but he said, `I know not to show mercy;' and with that knockt me down again. He had,…Brewer's: Greeks
in the New Testament mean Hellenists, or naturalised Jews in foreign countries; those not naturalised were called Aramæan Jews in Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine. “I will praise God that…Brewer's: Greybeard
(A). An earthen pot for holding spirits; a large stone jar. Also an old man. (Bellarmine.) “We will give a cup of distilled waters ... unto the next pilgrim that comes over; and ye may…Brewer's: Ivanhoe
I'vanhoe (3 syl.). Sir Wilfred, knight of Ivanhoe, is the disinherited son of Cedric of Rotherwood. He is first introduced as a pilgrim, in which guise he enters his father's hall, where…Brewer's: Canterbury Tales
Chaucer supposed that he was in company with a party of pilgrims going to Canterbury to pay their devotions at the shrine of Thomas à Becket. The party assembled at an inn in Southwark,…Trending
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