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Saturday 11 April 2009

Peregrination



Peregrination is a rarely used term for travelling or wandering, especially on foot and at random. It was used originally to refer to a pilgrimage.

"His peregrinations took him all over Europe, particularly the Eastern side."
 
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  1. Graham Edwards14 April 2009 at 03:49

    And in French pèlerinage still is pilgrimage. Liszt's Années de pèlerinage reminded me. But then pilgrimages are still commonish in France. I'm sure that you wanted to be told that (you probably knew anyway).

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