English edit

Noun edit

fellow-traveller (plural fellow-travellers)

  1. Alternative spelling of fellow traveller
    • 1848, William J[oseph] O’N[eill] Daunt, Personal Recollections of the Late Daniel O’Connell, M.P., volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, [], page 149:
      It was a comfortable thing for a social pair of fellow-travellers to get out of their chaise at night-fall, and to find at the inn (it was then kept by a cousin of mine, a Mrs. Cotter), a roaring fire, in a clean, well-furnished parlour, the whitest table-linen, the best beef, the sweetest and tenderest mutton, the fattest fowl, the most excellent wines (claret and Madeira were the high wines then—they knew nothing about Champagne), and the most comfortable beds.
    • 2016, George Orwell, Peter Davison, George Orwell: A Life in Letters:
      Martin of course is far too dishonest to be outright a crypto or fellow-traveller, but his main influence is pro-Russian and is certainly intended to be so, and I feel reasonably sure he would quislingise in the case of a Russian occupation, if he had not managed to get away on the last plane.