traveller's joy

Noun

traveller's joy (uncountable)

1. A climbing shrub native to Europe, Clematis vitalba.
   • Passengers on the Northern Line may often have noticed the flowering shrubs that glow from the banks of the cutting between Hendon and Brent. There are many such pleasant stretches of track. Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the...1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement)
   • The winds howled from the other side of the Morava River, which was stilled by ice, while along the banks the ice lay unmowed, full of icicled reeds, traveler's joy, and sedge, as though the ice were growing a silver beard.1988, Milorad Pavić, translated by Christina Pribićević-Zorić, Dictionary of the Khazars, Vintage, published 1989, page 309

   Synonyms:

   lady's bower, old man's beard, virgin's bower