subs. (colloquial).—A traveller; primarily one who races from place to place, with the object of covering ground or making a record. Fr.: un pacquelineur.
1886. Graphic, 7 Aug., 147/1. Your mere idle gaping GLOBETROTTER will spin endless pages of unobservant twaddle, and will record his tedious wanderings with most painful minuteness.
1888. Academy, 17 March. The inevitable steamboat, the world, and the omnivorous GLOBE-TROTTER.
1889. Echo, 9 Feb. The British GLOBE-TROTTER knows Japan as he knows England, and English books about Japan are turned out by the ton.
1890. Pall Mall Gazette, 27 Jan., p. 5, c. 2. This popular definition of a quick-mover has now become effete. Miss Bly is a GLOBE-GALLOPER or she is nothing.
