saddlebag itinerant

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in colonial times, an itinerant Methodist preacher who carried his requirements in his saddlebags; a circuit rider.

Quotations

1924

". . . that's the hoarseness the saddle-bag itinerants get with their roaring and noisy preaching."