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excursionist

[ik-skur-zhuh-nist, -shuh-] / ɪkˈskɜr ʒə nɪst, -ʃə- /


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On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Ontario liquor stores actually opened, however, it quickly became obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist."

From Time Magazine Archive

More than one excursionist has shown himself in that Humphrey Clinker condition which excited the wrath of Count Tabitha.

From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton

Just then a wave breaks over him, and more like a drowned excursionist than an American pilot this little man is hauled on board.

From The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss

The excursionist thinks of but little else during his stay there.

From Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by Hezekiah Butterworth




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