pilgrim

Etymology

From Middle English pilegrim, from Old French pelegrin, from Latin peregrīnus (“foreigner”). Doublet of peregrine. The change of –r...r– to –l...r– is an effect of dissimilation in early Romance; compare Italian cognate pellegrino.

noun

  1. One who travels, especially on a journey to visit sites of religious significance.
  2. (slang) A newcomer.
  3. (historical) A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.

verb

  1. (intransitive) To journey; to wander; to ramble.
    [T]o all galleries, churches, sistine chapels, ruins, coliseums, and artistic or dilettante shrines he zealously pilgrimed[.] 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling

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