nom de voyage

English

Etymology

French

Noun

nom de voyage (plural noms de voyage)

1. A pseudonym used while travelling.
   • 1830, November, unknown author, The Dublin Literary Gazette and National Magazine, number 5, volume 1, article “Lady Morgan’s France”, page 517:

     …it shows that she is sore upon some point, and we are almost tempted to fear she is angry that her title of My Lady has not proved to her as good a nom de voyage in England as it has done in France…

   • 1836, William Hauff, The American Monthly Magazine, volume 1, article “Horæ Germanicæ”, page 58:

     His nom de voyage is Mr. Von Natas (which, it will be noticed, is his more familiar name read backwards.)

   • 1849, Alexander Baillie-Cochrane, 1st Baron Lamington, Lucille Belmont: A Novel, volume 1, second edition, page 176:

     “… But I beg your pardon, Eccellenza; I meant to say, that the person who sent you here should have told you my nom de voyage.—Gitano, I call myself.”

   • 1867, Richard Francis Burton, chapter 1, in The City of the Saints and Across the Rocky Mountains to California, page 63:

     It was fortunate for Mr. and Mrs. Mann—the names were noms de voyage—that they left us so soon.

   • 2012, David Mack, chapter 12, in Star Trek: The Next Generation — Cold Equations Book One: Persistence of Memory:

     I tap the screen and accept the incoming signal from Shakti, who I know I can trust to remain in character as my assistant and adhere to our current noms de voyage. “Yes, Bree, what is it?”