1. a person who travels to religious shrines as an act of devotion
Usage: historical
2. a person who deceives others by pretending to be a religious pilgrim
Usage: archaic

Examples

• Medieval palmers carried palm branches as symbols of their pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
• The palmer walked hundreds of miles to reach the sacred shrine.
• Many palmers gathered at Canterbury Cathedral during the Middle Ages.
• The innkeeper was suspicious of the palmer’s true intentions.
• Chaucer wrote about various palmers in his Canterbury Tales.