| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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A pilgrim privileged to carry a palm-staff. In Fosbroke’s British Monachism we read that “certain prayers and psalms being said over the pilgrims, as they lay prostrate before the altar, they were sprinkled with holy water, and received a consecrated palmstaff. Palmers differed from pilgrims in this respect: a pilgrim made his pilgrimage and returned to public or private life; but a palmer spent all his days in visiting holy shrines, and lived on charity. | 1 |
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| “His sandals were with travel tore, |
| Staff, budget, bottle, scrip he wore; |
| The faded palm-branch in his hand |
| Showed pilgrim from the Holy Land.” | |
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Sir Walter Scott: Marmion, i. 27. |
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