wayfarers

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Vendors are hawking flower crowns, drinking horns, herbal tea blends and artisanal wildflower honeys while the pop-up taverns declaring “COLD DRYNKS” attend to parched wayfarers.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2022

They were free, but visitors to what was sort of a one-stop office for spaced-out foreign wayfarers without cash or credit cards were asked to make a donation.

From Seattle Times • May 7, 2021

The communities who had accepted the strangers as wayfarers wanting to help them did not see it coming.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2015

In 1799, the site became the Quarantine, where wayfarers suspected of having infectious diseases like smallpox, yellow fever, cholera and typhus were detained in hospitals and shanties.

From New York Times • Jul. 24, 2015

Because there were few inns, the monasteries were open for the entertainment of wayfarers, rich and poor alike.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli