Relating to Canterbury, a historic city in England, or to pilgrims visiting the shrine of Thomas Becket.
Derived from Canterbury, England, plus the suffix '-ian' meaning 'relating to' or 'of.' The city's fame comes from Geoffrey Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales,' about pilgrims traveling to Becket's shrine.
Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' is one of the most important works of English literature, written in the 1380s, and it immortalized the pilgrimage route and the city itself so thoroughly that 'Canterburian' became a literary touchstone—no other pilgrimage route got quite so much poetic fame!
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