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pilgrim

/ˈpɪlɡɹɪm/ noun A2
  1. Any traveler. (literary)
  2. An early American settler.
  3. A newcomer. (slang)
  4. A silk screen formerly attached to the back of a woman's bonnet to protect the neck.

Plural pilgrims

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Almost all the armed pilgrims that went to the Holy Land took for their arms either a cross, in honor of their mission, or birds of passage, in sign of the long voyage they were about to undertake, and which they hoped to accomplish on the wings of faith.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 437 · C1

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