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Definition of Travel-soiled
1. Adjective. Soiled from travel. "Travel-soiled clothes"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Travel-soiled
Literary usage of Travel-soiled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Adventures of a Quaker Among the Indians by Thomas Chester Battey (1903)
"The teacher at first rose up in astonishment; but seeing me in my present condition,
travel-soiled as I was, he comprehended the whole cause of the uproar, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1855)
"... travel-soiled and weary, attenuated by bad fare, and sleepless from acquaintance
with animated beds. But lobby-members and office- hunters were numerous ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"... when Kit made his appearance —a very gleam of sunshine, if sunshine ever came
in the garb of a travel-soiled mountaineer —to cheer my solitude, ..."
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