VIADANT NOUN a wayfarer; a traveller ...1632 obs. rare ETYMOLOGY from Spanish viandante, Portuguese viandante, Italian viandante, (a traveller, especially on foot) from via way + andar(e to go FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1632 - see EXAMPLE below EXAMPLE "...are alwayes occupied for the maintaining of their Families: they are but poorely clad, yet wonderfull kinde to all Viadants; so that who so have occasion to passe that Mountain, are there lodged, and furnished of all necessary provision of food..." From: The Totall Discourse, of the Rare Adventures, and Painefull Peregrinations of Long Nineteene Yeares Travailes from Scotland, to the Most Famous Kingdomes in Europe, Asia, and Affrica ... - William Lithgow
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